Reynolds v. Town of Sherburne

Appeal (1) from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered November 8, 1979 in Chenango County, which granted summary judgment in favor of defendants and dismissed the defendant’s third-party complaint, and (2) from the judgment entered thereon. As a result of a heavy snowstorm in March of 1977, two trees located in a stand of trees along the south side of Pleasant Valley Road (an east-west, two-lane blacktop road approximately 18 feet wide) had fallen and partially blocked that road. The Town of Sherburne Superintendent of Highways, Raymond P. Lawrence, came upon the trees as he…