Wachtler, J. (dissenting). A plaintiff’s right to recover for negligently inflicted injury should not depend upon whether the plaintiff belongs to a legally accepted “special class”. This judicially created caste system represents an indefensible exception to the basic principle of negligence law that a plaintiff is entitled to compensation when he has been injured by the defendant’s failure to observe standards of reasonable care…
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