Van Tuyl v. State

These six claims arose out of the same automobile accident and were tried together.

On July 30, 1954 between eight-fifteen and eight-thirty in the evening claimant Robert Van Tuyl left his home in Jamesville, New York, in his 1942 Packard four-door sedan with his wife, three children and his nephew, intending to go to a drive-in theatre. In the course of this trip the claimant Robert Van Tuyl drove north on a State highway known as Route 173 over which he had never before driven.

This State highway was originally constructed by Onondaga County between 1917 and 1921 and sometime thereafter…