Mooney v. Chapdelaine

The accident happened upon the road between Derry and Lawrence on the evening of February 19, 1934. The highway was practically straight and afforded a view for many hundred feet. It was snowing a little, and there was a sprinkling of snow upon the surface. The concrete pavement was twenty feet wide, flanked by a tar shoulder of two feet and a further shoulder of gravel, three feet at the narrowest, but averaging nearly four feet.

The defendant was driving southerly, on his own right-hand lane. McDonald was driving northerly, came over onto the same lane, and the collision ensued. It was the…