Best v. State

Van Kirk, J.:

The claim is prosecuted by Frank Best, as administrator of William Best. On the 14th day of June, 1919, in the middle afternoon, William Best was riding in an automobile bus, passing upon the highway from Hudson to Philmont in Columbia county. The bus swerved to the right and went down an embankment. William Best was injured and died on the next day. At the place of the accident and for some distance on either side the road is straight and level. It has a macadam surface fourteen feet in width, on either side of which is a dirt shoulder four feet wide, making the width twenty-two…