Case ID: ny-2d_40/html/0932-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sixta Centeno, as Administratrix of the Estate of Abraham Centeno, Deceased, Appellant, v City of New York, Respondent.
    Argued October 12, 1976;
    decided November 16, 1976
    
      Stanley Geen for appellant.
    
      W Bernard RichlandCorporation Counsel (L. Kevin Sheridan of counsel), for respondent.
   Order affirmed, without costs, on the Per Curiam opinion at the Appellate Division (48 AD2d 812).

Concur: Chief Judge Breitel and Judges Jasen, Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler and Cooke. Judge Fuchsberg dissents and votes to reverse in the following memorandum: I would reverse on the well-written dissenting opinion by Mr. Justice Emilio Nunez at the Appellate Division, emphasizing that the fact that a departure from accepted medical practice occurs in a psychiatric rather than in a nonpsychiatric setting is only an element to be weighed along with all the other circumstances in a particular case and is not the premise for an application of different legal principles.