Van Son v. State

Judgment unani*1014mously reversed, on the law, with costs, judgment granted claimant on issue of liability and matter remitted to the Court of Claims for a determination of damages. Memorandum: Claimant, administratrix of the estate of Susan Van Son, appeals from a judgment dismissing her claim for wrongful death. The decedent drowned as a result of a one-car accident on February 2, 1976 when the car in which she was riding as a passenger went off the Inner Loop Bridge in Rochester, broke through the bridge guardrail and plunged into the Genesee River. The claim is predicated upon the "State’s…