Case ID: ny-2d_67/html/0799-04.html
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Lloyd Helman, Appellant, v County of Warren, Respondent, et al., Defendant.
    Argued February 7, 1986;
    decided March 20, 1986
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Jeffrey Canale and William V Canale for appellant.
    
      Jason L. Shaw for respondent.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum at the Appellate Division (111 AD2d 560). Completely absent in this case was any “direct contact between agents of the municipality and the injured party”, upon which a special duty could be predicated (Sorichetti v City of New York, 65 NY2d 461, 469; see also, Yearwood v Town of Brighton, 64 NY2d 667).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Meyer, Kaye, Alexander, Titone and Hancock, Jr. Taking no part: Judge Simons.