Williams v. Jeffmar Mgmt. Corp

In Williams v. Jeffmar Mgmt. Corp. (31 A.D.3d 344) the infant plaintiff, two years old at the time of the incident, suffered second- and third-degree burns caused by excessively hot bath water. The child's mother pleaded guilty to the crime of assault in the second degree for her part in the incident, but "the nature of the conduct she admitted to was not as a matter of law so extraordinary under the circumstances' as to be a superseding event that broke the causal link between defendant's alleged negligence and plaintiff's injuries." (Id. at 345-46.)