Brown v. Boyd

BARRETT, Commissioner.

On Monday evening, about 7:40 o’clock, March 19, 1962, Dr. George Brown parked his automobile on the south side of Broadway, opposite Child’s Super Market, in Cape Girardeau. It had been raining and the streets were wet. Dr. Brown came out of the store with a sack of groceries in his left arm and again proceeded south across the 35-foot street toward his automobile. At the northwest corner of Broadway and Whitelaw, almost opposite Child’s, there was a mercury vapor light and two-thirds down the block a second light and of course there was some light from the store…