Van Tassell v. New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehicles

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Washington County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles revoking petitioner’s license to operate a motor vehicle. On December 22, 1972 a member of the Grlens Falls Police Department, responding to the scene of a reported accident, observed a vacant vehicle with front end damage located off the traveled portion of a two-lane highway and in contact with a light pole. A passerby…