GENESEO, NY — Thomas Cash, 35, of Mount Morris, has filed a civil damage suit in Livingston County Court, seeking unspecified damages relating to injuries he suffered in a Dec. 28 fight at Noyes Hospital Mental Health Clinic on Main Street in Dansville.

Cash is claiming that his assailant, Timothy Mayeu, age 43 of Geneseo, inflicted him with severe and permanent physical damage with his fists.

In Cash’s version of the incident, Mayeu’s attack on him was unprovoked.

“This was not equal combat. I was assaulted,” he said.

In Mayeu’s version, Cash instigated the fight by stabbing him in the hand with a pen. In the course of the altercation, others in the waiting area may have been unintentionally pushed or struck and a one-year-old child, one of three youngsters in the room, was spattered with Cash’s blood.

Both men were taken to Noyes Hospital following the incident and both have been charged by Dansville Police with the same offenses: three counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of disorderly conduct.

Cash has retained the firm of Alexander and Catalano of Rochester to represent his case.

Cash said he also intends to pursue a false arrest case against the Village of Dansville and the Dansville Police Department if the endangerment charge against him is dismissed in criminal court.

Cash stated that a medical examination has confirmed an 85 percent permanent loss of hearing in his left ear as a consequence of Mayeu’s blows. He has also suffered a major concussion resulting in blurred vision, blackouts and headaches. He will have permanent facial and head scars.

See complete story in our Feb. 4 print edition.