Legal Opinion
Lopes v. Rostad
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 6, 1978PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wachtler, J.
S. Zara Contracting Co., Inc. (Zara), by contract with the County of Nassau (County) undertook a sanitary sewer construction project. On September 3, 1971 at 9:00 a.m., while repairing a manhole in connection with the project, Manuel Lopes and Vito Martino, both employees of Zara, were struck by an automobile driven by Harold Rostad and owned by his mother Palma Rostad. As a result of the accident Lopes died and Martino suffered personal injuries.
The accident occurred in the northbound lane of Babylon Turnpike, a two-lane county highway in the Village of…
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