MATTER OF WESSBERG v. BECKMANN


21 Misc.2d 382 (1959)

In the Matter of Margaret Wessberg, as Administratrix of The Estate of the Ernest Wessberg, Deceased, Petitioner, v. John M. Beckmann, as Police Commissioner of Nassau County, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Nassau County.

December 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore D. Rothenberg for petitioner.

G. Burchard Smith, County Attorney, for respondent.


BERNARD S. MEYER, J.

"If Parliament does not mean what it says, it must say so." That pungent, profound and persuasive pronouncement of Lord Mildew in Bluff v. Father Gray (Herbert, "Uncommon Law", p. 192) is particularly pertinent to this article 78 proceeding.

Petitioner alleges that she is the duly appointed administratrix of one Ernest Wessberg; that he was killed while operating his automobile; that the accident in which he was killed...

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