Wittkugel v. State

On December 27, 1953 Gisela Wittkugel was a passenger in an automobile driven by her husband, Dr. Peter Wittkugel, which he was driving on Beaver Island Parkway, a public highway on Grand Island maintained by the State of New York through the agency of the Niagara Frontier State Park Commission. The automobile left the highway, at a point where it was covered with a sheet of ice, and crashed against a tree. Dr. Wittkugel was killed and his wife sustained serious personal injuries but survived. In another claim we are making findings that the highway was negligently maintained, that such…