ELWOOD v. PHI


62 A.D.3d 1074 (2009)

878 N.Y.S.2d 499

PATRICK ELWOOD, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of SCOT ELWOOD, Deceased, et al., Respondents, v. ALPHA SIGMA PHI, IOTA CHAPTER OF ALPHA SIGMA PHI FRATERNITY, INC., et al., Appellants.

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

May 7, 2009.


ROSE, J.

Plaintiffs commenced this wrongful death action after their son (hereinafter decedent), a sophomore at Cornell University, fell to his death in a gorge near a fraternity house owned by defendant Alpha Sigma Phi, Iota Chapter (hereinafter defendant) in the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County. Before he fell, decedent had been drinking heavily and, with his friend Ryan Bridge, attempted to find his way to a party at a different Cornell fraternity house. They drove...

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