Buren v. Town of Richmondville

On June 25, 1937, Grant Van Burén was the superintendent of highways of the town of Richmondville, Schoharie county, and was supervising the repair of a town road in that town. William Babcock was operating a dump truck owned by the town in the progress of the work. Babcock drove out of a lane into the highway with a load of stone, at which time Van Burén and another man stood talking in the angle, a few feet from the lane and from the highway. Each was aware of the presence of the other. After the truck turned into the highway, it then started a backward movement along the highway toward the…