Kane v. County of Cayuga

Plaintiff’s intestate died from injuries received when the automobile in which he and three companions were riding overturned. The county was held to be negligent because of failure to maintain the highway properly and for not placing signs of the dangerous and unsafe condition of the road. The car was traveling in a northerly direction upon improved county highway. At the scene of the accident there was an elevation one and four-tenths feet above the general grade of the road. A traveler approaching from the south ascended one and four-tenths feet in going twenty-four feet, then for eight…