Hall v. State

This claim arises out of a two-car accident which occurred on State Highway Route 26 approximately one and one-quarter miles south of the Village of Vernon Center, resulting in injuries which caused the death of claimant’s intestate. This highway, a 16- to 18-foot two-lane road of macadam construction, runs in a generally northerly and southerly direction.

In July of 1960, the State Department of Public Works undertook the replacement of an old bridge with a modern culvert. In order to avoid interruption of traffic by reason of the construction, the State constructed a temporary detour east of…