KATES v. STATE OF NEW YORK


47 Misc.2d 176 (1965)

Ivan Kates, as Administrator of The Estate of Beverly Katz, Deceased, Claimant, v. State of New York, Defendant. (Claim No. 40727.)

Court of Claims.

August 3, 1965


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moskowitz, Jacobs & Umanov (Nathan L. Levine of counsel), for claimant. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (John J. Reilly of counsel), for defendant.


J. SEWARD BODINE, J.

This claim arose from the death by suicide of a patient at Brooklyn State Hospital on March 8, 1962 and has not been assigned or submitted to any other tribunal. In some unexplained manner claimant's intestate jumped through a window on the fourth floor and fell to her death. A State employee had been directed to repair a broken window in the utility room of the ward and had gone there at about 11:00 A.M. He unlocked the door and...

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