Barnard v. State

Appeal from a judgment, entered October 10, 1973, upon a decision of the Court of Claims which dismissed claimant’s claim against the State. Claimant, Mich*701ael Barnard, a partially sighted young man, 21 years of age, was riding as a rear seat passenger in an automobile owned and operated by one Robert Cappel in a southerly direction along New York State Route 10 in the Town of Jefferson, County of Schoharie, at about 11:15 p.m. on February 21, 1971, when said vehicle failed to negotiate a curve to the right and continued straight into County Road 13, which intersected with Route 10 at the…