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ANDERSEN v. BEE LINE

1 N.Y.2d 169 (1956)

Margaret Andersen, as Administratrix of The Estate of Alfred Andersen, Deceased, Appellant, v. Bee Line, Inc., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided April 27, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. X. Finn, R. Mel Kavakos, Henry J. O'Hagan and Norman C. Mendes for appellant.

William L. Shumate and Thomas C. Cusack for respondents.

DESMOND, DYE and FROESSEL, JJ., concur with CONWAY, Ch. J.; BURKE, J., dissents in an opinion in which FULD and VAN VOORHIS, JJ., concur.

CONWAY, Ch. J.

On Friday, December 8, 1950, at about 6:40 P.M., a bus of the corporate defendant, Bee Line, Inc., driven by the individual defendant, Matzen, collided with the sedan of Alfred Andersen on Merrick Road between Brookside and Juanita Avenues in Freeport, Long Island. Andersen died in the hospital 10 days later, without ever regaining consciousness.

Thereafter this action was brought by plaintiff...

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