Goodman v. State

On the evening of September 11,1950, at approximately 11:30 p.m., the claimant Harry Goodman, accompanied by his wife, the claimant Sally Goodman, was proceeding from New York City to Elmira, New York, in a 1940 Chrysler two-door sedan, owned by the company for which Mr. Goodman worked. As the Goodman car traveled in a generally westerly direction on New York State Route 17, it approached a wooden barricade in the highway near Lowman, New York. As it was raining very hard, the claimant left his car to examine the barricade, finding thereon a sign containing the word “ Detour ” and an arrow…