Meeker v. State

This claim in the amount of $26,000 is predicated in negligence of the State of Hew York in permitting an unsafe condition along Route No. 14 just southerly of Pine Valley, Chemung County, New York.

On October 24, 1956, Susan Meeker, then an infant of nine years, was walking southerly on the east shoulder of State Highway Ho. 14 from Pine Valley to a schoolhouse located on the west side of the same highway. At a point approximately half way between her starting and destination points her left leg was impaled on a steel reinforcing rod jutting out of a broken highway post into the pathway used…