This wedding “crasher” could be on the hook for $1 million.
An Upper West Side woman is suing a rowdy reveler who drunkenly clobbered her on the dance floor at his sister’s reception last year.
Christine Mancision said she was grooving after dinner at the Hyatt Morristown in New Jersey when, “all of a sudden, I turn and I’m grabbed by this really tall individual.”
“I had no idea who he was. And he grabbed my arm and spun me around to dance with me and then just flung me off to the side of the dance floor, and I went flying to the floor,” the petite 27-year-old recalled.
“When I sat up, I was in a lot of pain. I looked at my arm, and it was bent the completely opposite way.”
At Morristown Memorial Hospital, she described the assailant to her boyfriend, Brett Henige, who had brought her to the Nov. 22, 2008, nuptials after being invited by his boss, groom Chris Beley.
“Brett immediately knew who it was. He had gone to the bachelor party with the guy,” she said, identifying the cad as James Graeber, a brother of the bride, Mary Graeber.
Doctors diagnosed Mancision with a broken wrist and scheduled an operation the next day, when a surgeon inserted a metal plate and five screws, which she’ll carry for life along with a 3-inch scar.
She endured eight months of grueling rehabilitation, forking over $2,500 in co-pays.
“I would go to occupational therapy and just cry. It hurt so much,” said Mancision, who works in investor relations at a hedge fund.
In addition to Graeber, Mancision’s suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, targets the hotel and the Hyatt Hotels Corp. for another $1 million in damages for allegedly violating New Jersey’s “dram shop” law by serving Graeber booze even though he was “visibly intoxicated.”
Her lawyer, Kyle Watters, said, “I think the Hyatt owes an obligation to its guests . . . to not fuel the fire of intoxication by pouring alcohol down the throat of an intoxicated patron.”
At Graeber’s home, his grandmother declined to comment.
A Hyatt spokeswoman declined comment.