Brand v. State

Separate appeals by the claimants from separate judgments rendered by the Court of Claims dismissing the respective claims for negligence, which were tried together. On April 3, 1935, claimant, John T. Brand, was a passenger in an automobile driven by Harold B. Herrick, deceased; they were proceeding westerly along a State highway known as the SloansvilleCharleston, part 2, State highway, route No. 148, in the town of Charleston, Montgomery county. At approximately the low point in the road there existed a culvert designed to carry surface water from the south to the north; the culvert had…