Judgment, insofar as appealed from, reversed on the law, and new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
Although former section 56 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law (now § 1180) was still in effect at the time of the occurrence of the accident on December 15, 1958 (see Vehicle and Traffic Law, §§ 2014, 2015), it was reversible error for the trial court, in its charge to the jury, to invoke subdivision 1 of section 56 as a basis for liability on...
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