New York State Electric & Gas Corp. v. J. C. A. Truck Leasing, Inc.

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Tompkins County, entered in favor of respondent upon a jury’s verdict after trial. Appellant asserts that respondent did not establish a prima facie case of negligence which should have been submitted to a jury. The record reveals that on May 10, 1962 a tractor-trailer operated by appellant’s employee left Route 96 near the City of Ithaca, proceeded upon the right shoulder and along a culvert to the right of the shoulder, returned to the highway and then left the highway again, travelled a distance of 83 feet and crashed into respondent’s power…