Crane v. State

Claimants appeal from three adverse judgments of the Court of Claims. The claimants Miner and Leggett, on July 31, 1934, were driving northerly in an automobile and the decedent Crane southerly on the Bloomingdale road in Essex county, which is constructed on two ten-foot concrete lanes supposed to be separated only by a narrow tar expansion joint. The Crane car came in collision with the left front mudguard and wheel of the Leggett car. The Court of Claims has found that Miner and Leggett were free from negligence which contributed to the happening of the accident and that it was occasioned…