O'Brien v. Purpura

Plaintiff moves for summary judgment. It appears from the moving papers that on November 2, 1958, at about 3:30 a.m., the two plaintiffs were standing on the northerly sidewalk of 65th Street, approximately 40 feet west of Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, when defendant’s automobile, proceeding north on Fourth Avenue, swerved to the left at 65th Street, travelled diagonally across this wide intersection and mounted the sidewalk at the northwest corner. The vehicle then struck the wall of a gasoline station at that corner, careened off the said wall and continued on the sidewalk, striking…