Case Name: Yonkers Contracting Company, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1989-06-01
Citations: 74 N.Y.2d 682
Docket Number: Claim No. 75625
Parties: Yonkers Contracting Company, Respondent, v State of New York, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 74
Pages: 682–684

Head Matter:
Yonkers Contracting Company, Respondent, v State of New York, Appellant.
(Claim No. 75625.)
Argued April 26, 1989;
decided June 1, 1989
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Richard J. Dorsey, O. Peter Sherwood and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for appellant.
Peter L. Agovino and Cornelia Mogor for respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Order reversed, with costs, claimant's motion to file a late notice of claim denied, and the certified question answered in the negative for the reasons stated in the dissenting memorandum of the late Justice Leonard H. Sandler at the Appellate Division (142 AD2d 518, 520-525).
Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa.