Veit v. State

The above-captioned claims arose out of the same accident, were tried together, and will be similarly treated herein.

On July 21, 1946, the claimants, who are husband and wife, together with their daughter, Irene Veit, about eighteen years of age, were traveling northerly on United States Route 11 from Binghamton to Cortland. At about 12:30 p.m. at a point approxi*206mately four or five miles north of Marathon, New York, and about 300 or 400 feet north of the barn on the Shumaeker farm, the 1938 Hudson coach, which was owned and operated by the claimant, Willy Veit, skidded on the wet pavement of…