Tripp v. State

This claim for the unlawful death of Joseph A. Lakin was duly filed on December 8, 1955, and has not been assigned.

On October 22, 1955, the claimant’s intestate, Joseph A. Lakin, was riding as a passenger in the front seat of a car owned and operated by one John Strauf. The car with its occupants was enroute to Syracuse and traveling in a northerly direction along State Highway U. S. Boute No. 11 in the Town of Lafayette, Onondaga County, when, in the process of rounding a curve on a down grade, Strauf lost control of the car. The car left the paved portion of the 22-foot highway and the…