Legal Opinion
Torrey v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided October 3, 1940No. Claim No. 25474; Claim No. 25475; Claim No. 25476; Claim No. 25478PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, J.
On March 27, 1939, the claimants Edward Frost, aged eighteen, John Kennedy, aged twenty, and William Torrey, aged twenty-one, sustained personal injuries when an automobile owned and driven by the claimant Edward Frost ran off the highway and crashed into a tree on the left-hand side thereof. The three young men were riding toward Holland Patent from Rome on a journey from Solvay to Tupper Lake where each hoped to find employment with a road contractor. The two-strip concrete State highway was laid out in a straightaway for a distance of at least half a mile, and except for a slight dip about…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Winter v. . City of Niagara FallsNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
- Murphy v. . Village of Fort EdwardNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Crapo v. . City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Doulin v. StateNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
- Miller v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1931
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Becker v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1957
- Robison v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1942
- Seelye v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1942
- Nelson v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1980
- Dawley v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1946
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