Legal Opinion
Murphy v. New York State Thruway Authority
New York Court of Claims
Decided August 30, 1960No. Claim No. 34433PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRichard S. Heller, J.
This is a claim for the unlawful death of claimant’s intestate alleged to have been caused through the negligence of the Hew York State Thruway Authority. The claim was duly filed and has not been assigned.
At the trial the court reserved decision on objections taken by claimant’s counsel to the admission into evidence of the analysis of a blood sample taken after death showing the presence of alcohol in the blood of the deceased.
The State trooper who investigated the accident accompanied the body of the deceased to an undertaking parlor and requested the undertaker to take a blood sample. The…
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