Dorrer v. Town of Callicoon
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Town of Callicoon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Sullivan on the 12th day of June, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury for $2,700, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
H. T. Kellogg, J.:
The plaintiff was driving a four-seated automobile truck# carrying eight people, southerly along an improved macadam *187highway, on a clear moonlight evening. He saw an approaching horse, drawing a buggy, pull up and stop on the easterly side of the road. He was traveling at from six to eight miles an hour. As he was passing the horse and buggy the horse backed, the left hind wheel of the buggy and the forward left wheel of the car collided and locked, turning the car sharply to the left, so that it crossed the'road almost at right angles, went head on over an embankment and…
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