Praded v. Magown

The accident occurred on the cement highway which extends in an easterly direction from Newport to Sunapee. Opposite a group of houses on the south side of the road, in the vicinity of the Gordon mills, a bank seven feet high and nineteen feet in length drops down sharply to within six feet of the north lane of concrete. Before the construction of this cement thoroughfare in 1931, children had been accustomed in winter to slide down this bank, crossing the old road and coming to a stop in the yard of one of the houses.

They were sliding there at noon on the-day of the accident. "Quite a crowd”…