Welsh v. Pritchett

This is a wrongful death action arising out of a collision between an automobile driven by Edward A. "Welsh, Jr. and an ambulance owned and driven by Joseph H. Pritchett, on U. S. Route 36, just east of Uliopolis, Illinois. The highway is a concrete two-lane highway, approximately twenty-two feet wide, running generally east and west. The highway at the point of collision was level and straight for approximately one-half mile in each direction. The time was about 9:00 o’clock a. m., the weather was clear and the pavement dry. Pritchett driving east had passed an automobile on the north…