Legal Opinion
Barna v. State
New York Court of Claims
Decided September 25, 1942No. Claim No. 24069; Claim No. 24070PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtDye, J.
The claimants’ decedents were occupants of an automobile that plunged through the wooden railing of Spook Hollow bridge and fell approximately fifty feet to the ground below. The bridge, erected prior to 1897, spanned the Boston and Maine Railroad right of way and separated the northerly terminal of State Highway No. 477, and the southerly terminal of State Highway No. 1843, which was also the southerly boundary of the village of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county.
In Douglas v. State of New York (254 App. Div. 392) it was held that the State was not liable for the maintenance and repair of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Ausable Chasm Co. v. State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1935
- Douglas v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1938
3Cited by1 opinion
- McDevitt v. StateAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1955