Carver v. State

This is a negligence claim against the State of New York resulting from an automobile accident on December 24, 1940, on the State highway which leads eastward from Syracuse to Jamesville. On that date, the claimant, who filed her claim under the name Frances Carver, but whose name is now Frances Muench, left her place of employment in Syracuse at about three o’clock in the afternoon to drive to her home at Pompey, about fourteen miles distant. She intended to pick up her mother and return to Syracuse at once, since she was supposed to report to her place pf employment, and also hoped to do…