Welker v. State

The State has appealed from a judgment of the Court of Claims, awarding claimant damages in the amount of $22,392.25 for injuries resulting when his automobile left a highway and collided with a tree. Claimant was operating the automobile in an easterly direction on State Route 23-A, a two-strip highway, between Palenville and Kiskatom, New York. An approaching ear was veering over to claimant’s side of the road. He moved his car to the right and it slid off the edge of the pavement and into a rut or depression along such edge. The automobile returned to and went diagonally across the highway…