Piragnoli v. State

Appeal by the State from two judgments rendered against it by the Court of Claims, one in favor of claimant individually for personal injuries and the other for him as administrator of the estate of his deceased wife for her wrongful death and her conscious pain and suffering. The claims were jointly tried. They arose from an automobile accident wherein the claimant, driving his wife’s car in which she was riding, so operated it, about midnight, down a grade at a right hand curve, as he was proceeding westerly on State Highway Route No. 81, near Cooksburg, N. Y., that it swayed or skidded off…