Williams v. County of Saratoga

The verdict and judgment were had against both defendants but the County alone has appealed. Plaintiff’s intestate was killed while riding as a passenger in an automobile operated by the defendant Wiley, late at night in August, 1941, upon a county highway. The trial court charged without exception that the county had the duty of making and maintaining this highway in a reasonably safe condition for public travel. At night the highway presented a deceptive appearance. This highway was straight for about a quarter of a mile, then ran over the brow of a small hill and turned to the left at a…