Estate of Konstantatos v. County of Suffolk

In Estate of Konstantatos v. County of Suffolk (208 A.D.2d 889, 618 N.Y.S.2d 90) the Court reasoned that taken to its logical conclusion, plaintiff's argument would render a municipality responsible in tort for the consequences of any condition existing on a roadway which it neither owns, designs, maintains, controls or repairs, simply because it enforces traffic regulations there. The Court concluded that since the County did not own the roadways or maintain the traffic signal, it owed no duty to the plaintiff's decedent to warn him of any dangerous condition existing on the roadway.