Connor v. McGill

At midafternoon on December 19, 1962, the plaintiff was traveling south in the west lane of U.S. Highway 7 in South Burlington. He had reduced the speed of his Volkswagen sedan preparatory to entering the driveway of the Redwood Motel, located on the east side of the highway. The thoroughfare at this point has two straight, undivided lanes of cement with blacktop shoulders of lane width on each side. The defendant was approaching from the south in the opposite lane, operating a Pontiac station wagon.

According to the plaintiff’s testimony, he applied his directional signal some three hundred…