RHAMES v. SUPERMARKETS GENERAL CORPORATION


260 A.D.2d 623 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 267

WENFORD RHAMES, Respondent, v. SUPERMARKETS GENERAL CORPORATION, Also Known as S.G.C., Doing Business as PATHMARK STORE, Appellant, et al., Defendant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided April 26, 1999.


Ordered that the interlocutory judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The plaintiff presented sufficient evidence from which the jury could conclude that the appellant was negligent in hiring and continuing to employ the defendant Christopher Whitaker, and that it knew or should have known that he posed a danger to others (see, McCrink v City of New York, 296 N.Y. 99; cf., Farrell v McIntosh, 221 A.D.2d 312

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