EASTMAN v. STATE OF NEW YORK


278 A.D. 1 (1951)

John Eastman, as Administrator of The Estate of Sandra Eastman, Deceased, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 29036.) John Eastman, as Administrator of The Estate of Sharon Eastman, Deceased, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 29037.) Melvin Eastman, an Infant, by John Eastman, His Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 29038.) William Eastman, an Infant, by John Eastman, His Guardian ad Litem, Respondent, v. State of New York, Appellant. (Claim No. 29039.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 7, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney-General (Wendell P. Brown, Solicitor-General and Henry S. Manley of counsel), for appellant.

John LoPinto for respondents.

FOSTER, P. J., BREWSTER, BERGAN and COON, JJ., concur.


HEFFERNAN, J.

On the morning of April 9, 1948, Ethel Eastman was driving her husband's automobile from her home in South Lansing, Tompkins County, New York, towards Ithaca, New York, southerly along New York State Route 34. She was accompanied by her four minor children. Route 34 is intersected on the west by a highway known as Cayuga Street Extension. At that intersection Route 34 turns to the west and proceeds...

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