Legal Opinion
Jacobs v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided September 3, 1941No. Claim No. 25360; Claim No. 25361; Claim No. 25362; Claim No. 25363PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, J.
On the evening of September 21, 1938, claimants were passengers in a car driven by claimant Madeline Kelly in a westerly direction on Route 5 between Fonda and Palatine Bridge, and they seek to recover for injuries sustained by them when their car was struck by a mass of rocks, stones and mud, entangled with a tree, which slid down from an embankment on the northerly side of the highway.
*71This embankment rose from the edge of the shoulder of the road for a distance of approximately one-half a mile; there had been slides in this area for several years prior to September 21, 1938, and it was not…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Doulin v. StateNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
- Shaknis v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937
3Cited by8 opinions
- Rivera Vera v. El Pueblo de Puerto RicoSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1954
- Jacobs v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1942
- Rivera Vera v. PuebloSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1952
- Edgett v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1958
- Giroux v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1948
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