FORTUNATO v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

No. 672, Docket 72-1051.

464 F.2d 962 (1972)

Maurizio D. FORTUNATO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 10, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence E. Walsh, New York City (Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Daniel J. Coughlin and Guy M. Struve, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Benjamin H. Siff, New York City (Edelman, Berger & Peters, Brooklyn, N. Y. and Thomas R. Newman, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, ANDERSON and MANSFIELD, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT P. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

On July 7, 1967, Maurizio Fortunato drove his six weeks old 1967 Ford Mustang from his home in Weehawken, New Jersey, to a dance hall in Manhattan. After arriving there about 10:00 or 10:30 p. m., he met a girl with whom he danced and drank two or three highballs. He left about an hour later and took the girl to her home in Queens. From there he headed for Manhattan by way of the Queensboro Bridge. Just as he was approaching an ...

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