Case ID: ny-2d_13/html/1139-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Raymond Burnash, Appellant, v. William Dunn et al., Respondents. Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of Wisconsin, Appellant, v. William Dunn et al., Respondents.
    Argued January 6, 1964;
    decided January 16, 1964.
    
      
      Martin Brichman for appellants.
    
      John J. Scully for respondents.
   Judgments reversed and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event. (Conte v. Large Scale Development Corp., 10 N Y 2d 20).

Concur: Chief Judge Desmond and Judges Dye, Fuld and Burke. Taking no part: Judge Bergan. Judges Van Voorhis and Scileppi dissent and vote to affirm upon the ground that this accident did not occur upon a ramp ”, as that term is defined by rule 23-35.1 of the Rules of the Board of Standards and Appeals. Conte v. Large Scale Development Corp. (10 N Y 2d 20) involved an inclined plane to permit trucks to descend into an excavation. In our view, even that case does not require classification as a ramp of any sloping land off from a public highway which has been traversed by other vehicles or even if in ordinary parlance it may be termed a driveway. This record does not establish that the driveway” used was the type of ramp contemplated in the Conte case or by the provisions of the State Board of Standards and Appeals regulations.