Court Opinion

ID: 3612238
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:56:03.966576+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:55:31.561732
License: Public Domain

Order affirmed, with costs. Question certified answered in the negative. No opinion.
Concur: LEHMAN, Ch. J., LOUGHRAN, DESMOND and THACHER, JJ. LEWIS and CONWAY, JJ., dissent on the ground that the plaintiff who was serving a life sentence was "civilly dead" and did not have the legal capacity to sue. (Penal Law, § 511; Matter ofPallas, 291 N.Y. 692; Matter of Lindewall, 287 N.Y. 347;Green v. State of New York, 278 N.Y. 15; Avery v.Everett, 110 N.Y. 317.) Taking no part: DYE, J. *Page 745