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ST. GEORGE v. STATE OF NEW YORK

283 A.D. 245 (1954)

Yula P. St. George, as Administratrix of The Estate of Frank St. George, Deceased, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 30281.)

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

January 27, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Wendell P. Brown and Henry S. Manley of counsel), for appellant.

Harry Ander, Harry H. Lipsig and Bernard Meyerson for respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., BERGAN, HALPERN and IMRIE, JJ., concur.

COON, J.

On March 5, 1950, on a street in Brooklyn, one William Jones, a colored boy then nineteen years of age, stabbed and killed Frank St. George, a perfect stranger, without provocation or apparent motive. Jones had been released on March 1, 1950, from Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. Claimant's theory of the liability of the State is that the doctors and psychiatrists at Matteawan negligently...

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