Nesci v. Willey

Sunday evening, August 24, 1952, was clear and pleasant and the .highways were firm and dry approximately two miles east of the “South Omaha bridge” in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, but according to the record it was a bad day for good Samaritans. The plaintiff was driving his car easterly on Highway 275, taking a lady acquaintance to Council Bluffs, when he ran out of gasoline. He was just a short distance east of a right-angle intersection between a dirt road extending north and south and Highway 275, which runs in an east-west direction. As he and his passenger started to walk to a gas…