Murray v. Donlan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*338OPINION OF THE COURT
Mangano, J.
Two main issues are raised on this appeal: (1) whether a motor vehicle accident report prepared by a non-eyewitness police officer may be admitted into evidence for the purpose of establishing the cause of the subject accident, and (2) whether judicial notice may be taken of the purported fact that an automobile equipped with good brakes and traveling 10 to 12 miles per hour can be stopped in considerably less than 15 feet. We answer both of these questions in the negative.
On December 22, 1969 defendant John Donlan, Jr. was driving plaintiffs Joseph Murray, Paul…
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