Frasier v. State

Appeal by the State of New York from separate judgments entered by the Court of Claims in faYor of a wife for personal injuries and in favor of her husband for derivative damages. Claimants cross-appeal from the judgments on the ground of inadequacy. A nail which stuck up from a plank said to have been covered with debris of various kinds pierced the foot of claimant wife on the morning of April 16, 1959 as she entered, for a short distance, upon a narrow strip of land lying beyond a guiderail marking the edge of the travelled portion of a State highway and the outermost limit of the State’s…