SQUADRITO v. GRIEBSCH


1 N.Y.2d 471 (1956)

Raymond Joseph Squadrito, Respondent, v. Ernest H. Griebsch, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob K. Javits, Attorney-General (Joseph H. Murphy and James O. Moore, Jr., of counsel), for appellant.

P. Sidney Hand for respondent.

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


FULD, J.

On an October afternoon in the year 1953, defendant, a state trooper, and a fellow officer, both in uniform and in a car prominently marked "State Police," were engaged in patrolling Route 11 in up-state New York. At about two o'clock, they observed plaintiff's automobile proceeding at a high speed, "clocked" it at from 70 to 75 miles an hour on a portion of the highway having a 50-mile speed limit and...

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