ACORN v. STATE


286 A.D. 940 (1955)

Ruth M. Acorn, as Administratrix of The Estate of Russell M. Acorn, Deceased, Appellant, v. State of New York, Respondent. (Claim No. 31438.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

July 7, 1955.


The claim is based upon the alleged negligence of the State in maintaining a highway upon which claimant's intestate was driving an automobile when an accident occurred resulting in his death. Decedent was driving in a southerly direction on Route 34 on a rainy morning on August 19, 1950, about 10 A.M. When he reached a point about one and one-half miles north of the village of Waverly, N. Y., his car skidded on a piece or pieces of wet newspaper, causing him to lose control...

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