Purdy v. State

Appeal by the State from a judgment of the Court of Claims, which awarded damages for personal injuries and property damage found to have been sustained by claimant by reason of the State’s negligence whereby debris, consisting of dirt, gravel and stones, which had washed down the 13½% slope of Purdy Avenue to and upon the pavement of Route 9W in the Town of Marlboro, was permitted to accumulate to a depth of seven inches and to remain there, and this without any warning thereof, despite the State’s actual and constructive notice of this recurring condition; with the result that upon coming…