MATTER OF GOOD v. HULTS


14 N.Y.2d 907 (1964)

In the Matter of Adam J. Good, Respondent-Appellant, v. William S. Hults, as Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, Appellant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Philip J. Fitzgerald and Paxton Blair of counsel), for appellant-respondent.

Edward M. Segal for respondent-appellant.

Concur: Judges FULD, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and SCILEPPI. Judge DYE dissents and votes to reverse and to reinstate the determination of the Commissioner in the following opinion in which Chief Judge DESMOND and Judge BERGAN concur.


Order of Appellate Division modified insofar as it directs suspension of petitioner's license, and the Commissioner's determination annulled upon the ground that there is no substantial evidence to support it.

DYE, J. (dissenting).

I dissent and vote to reverse and to reinstate the determination of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. The term "gross negligence", as used in the statute, is negligence in...

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