Case Name: Jean Rucker, as Guardian ad Litem of Rosa Hill, a Mentally Incompetent Person, Respondent, v. Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc., et al., Appellants
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1964-10-15
Citations: 15 N.Y.2d 516
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jean Rucker, as Guardian ad Litem of Rosa Hill, a Mentally Incompetent Person, Respondent, v. Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc., et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 516–519

Head Matter:
Jean Rucker, as Guardian ad Litem of Rosa Hill, a Mentally Incompetent Person, Respondent, v. Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, Inc., et al., Appellants.
Argued September 28, 1964;
decided October 15, 1964.
William J. McNamara and Stuart Riedel for appellants.
Jacob D. Fuchsberg and Abraham Fuchsberg for respondent.

Opinion:
Order reversed and the complaint dismissed, without costs, upon the ground, fully developed in the dissenting opinion at the Appellate Division, that the plaintiff failed, as a matter of law, to establish actionable negligence. The cases cited in the opinion for affirmance are inapposite. In each of them, a question of fact as to defendant's negligence was held to exist by reason of the undisputed proof that the operator of the vehicle failed ;to. see plaintiff. (or plaintiff's intestate) even though, the. latter was in plain and.unobstructed view and in the direct path of the vehicle.
Concur: Judges Fuld, Van Voorhis, Burke, Scileppi and Bergan. Chief Judge Desmond dissents in the following opinion in which Judge Dye concurs.