Rafferty v. State

The accident out of which these claims arose happened at about one-forty-five a. m. on August 10, 1936. John Mahue, one of the claimants, was driving his automobile in a westerly direction on a highway constructed and maintained by the State and when the car reached a point about three-quarters of a mile west of the limits of the village of Ticonderoga, it came into collision with a tree in the shoulder of the road and two of the passengers, Eunice Rafferty and Jessie Wolcott, received injuries from which they died and the claimant Clarence Mattison and the claimant John Mahue were injured…