Lehr v. City of New York

This is an action brought by the administrator of the goods, chattels and credits of Anton Lehr, Jr., deceased, to recover damages for his alleged wrongful death. The decedent was a police officer employed by the defendant. The complaint alleges that in the course of his employment the decedent occupied a radio patrol car supplied by the defendant and that while in that car he was caused to be asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas which caused his death. The complaint further alleges that the decedent left him surviving his mother, father (the plaintiff herein), a brother and a sister and that…