Covert v. Randall

Plaintiff administrator claims that at 2:30 a.m. on June 18,1938, as decedent was crossing from the southwest to the northwest corner of Warren and Piedmont avenues, Detroit, Michigan, defendant, while speeding in an easterly direction on Warren avenue at the rate of 50 to 60 miles an hour, drove his car into decedent and instantly killed him. The body was carried for some distance on the front of the car. Finally, after defendant swerved his car to the north where he collided with an automobile parked on Warren avenue east of Piedmont, decedent’s body came to rest 190 feet from the point of…