Crane v. State of New York

A careful reading of the record has convinced me that the appellant was defeated in her claim because the trial court mistakenly believed that the deceased was a man who had been intoxicated shortly before the accident at a nearby fair grounds. In addition to the fact that the identity of the deceased with the man at the fair grounds was not established, the doctor and the night supervisor in charge of the Saranac Lake General Hospital (a registered nurse) who attended the deceased upon his removal to the hospital immediately after the accident testified that they saw no sign or symptom of…