Herendeen v. State

The above claims arise from the alleged negligence of a State trooper in forcing the automobile in which the claimants were riding off the highway and causing it to overturn, resulting in personal injuries to all three of the claimants and damage to the automobile. The claims were tried together and are thus disposed of here.

The testimony is in sharp conflict. We shall consider first the claimants ’ version of the event as related by Mary K. Herendeen, the driver and owner of the damaged automobile. She testified that on the evening of October 17,1947, she "was proceeding from Rochester to…