Spencer v. State

George G. Spencer, a young man twenty-five years of age, was injured on a State highway on the morning of July 30, 1927, by running into and colliding with an unlighted and unguarded tar bucket standing on the improved highway between Branchport and Penn Yan, N. Y.

The vital question involved in this claim is as to whether the tar bucket which stood in the improved highway on the night of July 29, 1927, and the morning of July 30, 1927, was properly and sufficiently lighted and guarded so as to give notice to the traveling public of the dangerous obstruction in and upon the highway.

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