Koester v. State
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCHNEPP, J.
This appeal concerns the question of legal causation in the context of a claim for damages against the State of New York arising from the failure of a motorcyclist to negotiate a curve on a State highway interchange. The Court of Claims found after a trial that the State was negligent in failing to install “curve” and “stated speed” signs but that the absence of such signs was not a factor in the causation of the accident and that claimant had failed to sustain his burden of proving that the State’s negligence was the *358“proximate cause” of the accident. No issue…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Ingersoll v. Liberty Bank of BuffaloNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
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