White v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

White v. City of New York

37 A.D.2d 603, 322 N.Y.S.2d 920, 1971 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3867

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedJune 14, 1971

StatusPublished

Cited by4 cases

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White v. City of New York, 37 A.D.2d 603, 322 N.Y.S.2d 920, 1971 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3867 (N.Y. Ct. App. 1971).

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In a medical malpractice action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff, in which the infant’s father sought damages, as limited at the trial, for loss of his son’s companionship, defendant appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered February 18, 1970, as is in favor of plaintiffs upon a jury verdict. Judgment modified, on the law and the facts, by deleting therefrom the third decretal paragraph, which granted a recovery to the plaintiff father on his cause of action, and by dismissing that cause of action. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the infant plaintiff, Vincent Alexander White. It was error to permit an award to the father for loss of his child's companionship. There was no proof of special damages or loss of services. The loss of a child’s society is not compensable (Gilbert v. Stanton Brewery, 295 N. Y. 270, 273; Foti v. Quittel, 19 A D 2d 635). Hopkins, Acting P. J., Martuscello, Shapiro, Gulotta and Benjamin, JJ., concur.

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In a medical malpractice action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff, in which the infant’s father sought damages, as limited at the trial, for loss of his son’s companionship, defendant appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County, entered February 18, 1970, as is in favor of plaintiffs upon a jury verdict. Judgment modified, on the law and the facts, by deleting therefrom the third decretal paragraph, which granted a recovery to the plaintiff father on his cause of action, and by dismissing that cause of action. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the infant plaintiff, Vincent Alexander White. It was error to permit an award to the father for loss of his child's companionship. There was no proof of special damages or loss of services. The loss of a child’s society is not compensable (Gilbert v. Stanton Brewery, 295 N. Y. 270, 273; Foti v. Quittel, 19 A D 2d 635). Hopkins, Acting P. J., Martuscello, Shapiro, Gulotta and Benjamin, JJ., concur.

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37 A.D.2d 603, 322 N.Y.S.2d 920, 1971 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3867, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/white-v-city-of-new-york-nyappdiv-1971.

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