BLAINEY v. METRO N. COMMUTER R.R.

7323, 13919/04.

99 A.D.3d 588 (2012)

953 N.Y.S.2d 18

2012 NY Slip Op 7056

LIAM BLAINEY, Respondent, v. METRO NORTH COMMUTER RAILROAD, a Subsidiary of METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, et al., Defendants, and CITY OF NEW YORK, Appellant.

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

October 23, 2012.


On June 14, 2003, two police officers, one of whom was plaintiff Liam Blainey, were pursuing a fleeing suspect in the Bronx. The officers located the suspect lying, apparently injured, on the Metro North railroad tracks running through a sunken trench in the middle of Park Avenue, to the south of the bridge by which East 187th Street traversed the Metro North right-of-way. Intending to rescue the suspect, plaintiff and his partner planned to climb over the chain-link fence...

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