State v. Pasta

While traveling on the highway between Pocatello and Blackfoot, appellant, in attempting to pass a car going in the same direction, collided with the car he was attempting to pass, as well as with another car approaching from the opposite direction. Considerable injury resulted to the three cars and to their occupants. Appellant was convicted of a violation of that portion of sec. 13, chap. 249, 1921 Session Laws, which reads—

“ . . . . and no vehicle shall overtake and pass any other vehicle when the view ahead is not clear for at least one hundred yards.”

He was sentenced to pay a fine and to…