MATTER OF CHAFFEE v. EFFRON


1 A.D.2d 197 (1956)

In the Matter of the Claim of Beatrice Chaffee, on Behalf of Rebecca Clapper, an Infant, Respondent, v. Morris L. Effron et al., Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

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

February 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph S. Stowell and Joseph D. Edwards for appellants.

Emil C. Herrmann for claimant-respondent.

Jacob K. Javits, Attorney-General (Roy Wiedersum and Gilbert M. Landy of counsel), for Workmen's Compensation Board, respondent.

FOSTER, P. J., HALPERN, ZELLER and GIBSON, JJ., concur.


BERGAN, J.

Decedent was killed in a motor vehicle accident while driving an automobile of his employers on a highway in the city of Vergennes, Vermont. One of the employers was present in the vehicle at the time of the accident. The proof is that decedent was driving carelessly. He was going around a sharp curve, described by a police official as a "very bad curve" at which vision was restricted by the abutment of an overhead railroad bridge.

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