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307 N.Y. 369

Meyer v. Whisnant

New York Court of Appeals

Decided July 14, 1954

New York Court of Appeals · decided 1954-07-14

Relies on Brown v. Shyne · Tedla v. Ellman · Hagadorn v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc.

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Decided 1954-07-14

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Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1976

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Desmond, J.

¶1The dismissal of the complaints as against defendant-respondent Whisnant should be affirmed. The sudden, unanticipated and unexplained dash of the Bien car, across the highway and into Whisnant’s path, made him the helpless victim of what was, beyond any dispute, an emergency with the creation of which Whisnant had nothing to do. Such violations as Whisnant may have been guilty of were no proof of negligent causation by him, since there was no possible logical connection between any of them, and the accident (see Brown v. Shyne, 242 N. Y. 176, 180; Tedla v. Ellman, 280 N. Y. 124; Hagadorn v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., 298 N. Y. 882; Goldblatt v. Tabacco, 299 N. Y. 663; Restatement, Torts, § 286).

¶2The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.

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