Legal Opinion
Claim of Chaffee ex rel. Clapper v. Effron
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 21, 1956PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBergan, J.
Decedent was killed in a motor vehicle accident while driving an automobile of his employers on a highway in the city of Vergennes, Vermont. One of the employers was present in the vehicle at the time of the accident. The proof is that decedent was driving carelessly. He was going around a sharp curve, described by a police official as a “ very bad curve ” at which vision was restricted by the abutment of an overhead railroad bridge.
The speed of the vehicle was forty-five miles an hour and as decedent went into the curve he failed to keep to the right of the center line of the highway. While…
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