Rice v. Builders Material Co.

Kenna, Judge:

On June 3, 1937, Mrs. Flora Rice was driving a 1937 Chevrolet sedan from Charleston to Poca, West Virginia. She was taking Mr. Rice home from the Mountain State Hospital, where, on the previous day, his tonsils had been removed. They had driven along Route thirty-five and had almost reached what is locally known as Tyler Mountain. It was raining. The car Mrs. Rice was driving in rounding a curve to her left, at a speed approxi mating- fifteen or twenty miles an hour, collided with a truck loaded with sand, going in the opposite direction and being driven by Jack King, which…