Kraus v. State

Both of these claims arise out of a collision between a motor vehicle owned and operated by the claimant Charles Kraus and a piece of heavy equipment of the Department of Public Works known as a Michigan payloader. The collision occurred on January 10, 1959 on Route 12 in front of a New York State Police Substation in the Town of Remsen, New York. The claimant Helen Kraus was riding in the Kraus car as a passenger.

Immediately prior to the collision the payloader had been used with two flagmen to clear ice from a driveway some 30 to 35 feet in width leading into a parking lot at the State…