Cuffy v. City of New York

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1987-02-19

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*258 OPINION OF THE COURT Titone, J. In a line of cases culminating in Sorichetti v City of New York ( 65 NY2d 461 ), we recognized a narrow right to recover from a municipality for its negligent failure to provide police protection where a promise of protection was made to a particular citizen and, as a co…

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