Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1927

Aspinall v. City of New York

Aspinall v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided June 15, 1927
221 A.D. 753
Aspinall v. City of New York

Opinion of the Court

Judgment affirmed, with costs. In taking plaintiff to his home, the driver of respondent’s automobile was not acting in the discharge of the city’s business. The act was beyond the authority of the municipal corporation. Section 282-e of the Highway Law does not impose any liability upon the city under the proof here. (Downing v. City of New York, 219 App. Div. 444.) Kelly, P. J., Kapper, Lazansky and Hagarty, JJ., concur; Young, J., dissents, being of opinion that the Legislature, in passing section 282-e of the Highway Law, intended that this provision should have general application to municipal corporations as well as to individuals.

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