MATTER OF BRANAM v. SIMONS


300 A.D.2d 973 (2002)

750 N.Y.S.2d 905

In the Matter of JOYCE A. BRANAM, Petitioner, v. GERALD R. SIMONS, as Chief Executive and Chair of the County of Columbia, et al., Respondents.

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

Decided December 26, 2002.


Crew III, J.P.

On March 9, 2000 petitioner, a dispatcher for Columbia County 911 Services, received a call concerning an elderly woman who had fallen and injured her head at the Open Gate trailer park in the Town of Stockport, Columbia County. Petitioner did not hear the first three digits of the telephone number that the caller had given and incorrectly supplied the digits "392" based upon her mistaken impression that the call emanated from the Golden Acres trailer...

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