Porcaro v. State

Appeals by the State from judgments of the Court of Claims which awarded wrongful death damages and property damage, caused when the automobile in which claimants’ intestates were riding skidded while proceeding downgrade on the icy surface of the Taeonie State Parkway, left the highway and collided with a clump of trees. The trial court found that at about 7:30 A.M. on the day of the accident the pavement became icy by reason of a freezing drizzle of rain and that sanding operations then began; that the upgrade and crest of the hill had been sanded when decedents’ automobile arrived and…