Legal Opinion
Fairchild v. Cervi Bros. Trucking Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 10, 1956PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHalpern, J.
On September 12, 1952, a head-on collision occurred on Route 20, near Canandaigua, New York, between a tractor-trailer, owned by the appellant Cervi Bros. Trucking Co. *510and operated by the appellant Roberts, and a passenger automobile owned by George Powles and operated by David de Forest.
Riding in the automobile as passengers were Ronald Powles, the son of the owner, and the Misses Fairchild, Smith and Tysse. All of the occupants of the passenger automobile were college* students on their way to Hope College in Holland, Michigan. The truck was loaded with steel plate and was on its way from…
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- Porret v. City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1929
- Thorsen v. MetzgarAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1951
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