Blalock v. Hart

Tbe defendant Ragan’s intestate was driving the Oldsmobile. He was on the servient highway as designated by the stop sign. The evidence to the effect that the Oldsmobile was found immediately after the collision in a demolished condition against an oak tree beyond the intersection with the side next to the tree crushed in and the “hack part of the car knocked” forward “to within 2 or 3 feet of the steering wheel,” when considered with other corroborative proofs, is sufficient, we think, to make out a prima facie case of actionable negligence based on the plaintiff’s allegations that Ragan in…