Cordts v. Vanderbilt

The case arises out of an automobile accident. On Eebruary 3d, 1926, Mrs. Cordts, a young married woman of about thirty-five years of age, with her young son, went in the late afternoon a few blocks to see the old grandmother who lived at Westfield on 'a street called Trenton avenue which runs northeasterly into South avenue. The Cordts *857family lived on South avenue. It was the middle of winter and there was, or had been, a very severe snow storm. The evidence is contradictory as to whether it was snowing at the time of the accident or had cleared off.

The streets were well lighted after dark,…