Brown v. Lilli

On August 15, 1935, plaintiff, together with friends, was returning by automobile from a resort near Reed City to her home in Chicago. They left Kalamazoo on highway US 12, which runs in an easterly and westerly direction at the place of the accident in question, and when approximately a mile west from the city of Kalamazoo stopped the car on the gravel shoulder on the northerly side of the road to eat a lunch, the left wheels of the car being about 18 inches from the edge of the pavement. After eating the lunch, plaintiff stepped from the right rear door of the car and walked along the…