Barry v. Arrow Transportation Company

TAYLOR, Justice.

On the morning of January 15, 1955, at about 3 :00 a. m., plaintiff (respondent) was traveling west on U. S. highway No. 2, going from Sandpoint to Priest River. He was driving his own Pontiac automobile.

Highway maintenance equipment had pushed snow off the road into windrows at the outer edge of the shoulders. The snow remaining on the highway was hard packed, icy and covered with a light skiff of fresh snow. Its condition was described by the witnesses as “very slippery.”

At a point just out of, and to the east of, Laclede the road dips into a hollow and rises again before…