Legal Opinion
Farber v. Smolack
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 7, 1967PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBergan, J.
Defendant Robert Smolack owned a 1960 Triumph station wagon which he suggested his brother Arthur Smolack drive with Arthur’s family from New York to Florida in April, 1960. On the way back to New York from Florida an accident occurred in North Carolina while Arthur was driving in which Arthur’s wife was killed and his two children were injured.
This is an action by the administrator of the wife and the guardian of the infant Kenneth S. Smolack and by Melvin M. *201Smolack, individually since he had reached the age of 21 by the time of trial, against Robert Smolack, as owner, based on Arthur’s…
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