Smith v. State
New York Court of Claims
1Opinion of the CourtAckerson, J.
On the 29th day of October, 1928, this claimant was a resident of Weedsport, N. Y. He was forty-six years of age and was conducting a garage and automobile business in that place. He had driven automobiles since 1906.
On this day in question he was alone in a Pontiac sedan driving from Auburn to Weedsport. It was dark. He lit the headlights on the car when he left Auburn. He arrived near the village of Sennett about six-thirty p. m. Up to that point from Auburn he had been traveling on the right-hand strip of concrete on a concrete highway composed of three strips of concrete each nine feet…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Whitney v. Town of TiconderogaNew York Supreme Court · 1889
- Newell v. Town of Stony PointAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Spencer v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1928
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