Peek v. State

These claims were tried together. The first was filed

to recover damages for injury to Eugene Peek’s automobile; the second to recover damages for causing the death of Louise Peek, claimant’s intestate, a passenger in said automobile. The accident occurred August 5, 1928, between nine-thirty and ten o’clock at night, at a point on State Highway No. 5325, between Stittville and Marcy Station, said highway running generally north and south. The point of the accident was on a curve where the road descended at a six per cent grade, bearing to the east. Eugene Peek was driving generally in a…