Tomasetti v. State

On August 16,1950, at approximately 10:00 p.m., Pasquale Tomasetti met his death when his automobile left State Highway 109, Town of Babylon, collided with a concrete catch basin located in the shoulder of the road, and crashed into a crossboard to which mail boxes were affixed. The car then veered to the left several hundred feet into the center mall of Route 109, where it overturned. The decedent was then returning from Travers Island where he had been attending an outing, given by a roadbuilders organization, and where he had spent the major portion of the day. Unaccompanied, he left…