Lee v. State

Claimant seeks recovery of $25,000.00 for the death of his wife, Maggie M. Lee, on May 23, 1962, while she was driving on Illinois State Bond Issue Road No. 34 in Saline County, Illinois.

The evidence shows that claimant’s intestate was driving a 1955 Plymouth automobile in a northerly direction along the highway when the front wheel of the motor vehicle dropped off the paved portion of the highway onto the lower east shoulder. She drove back onto the pavement, and the car went out of control, crossed the pavement into the southbound traffic lane, came back into the northbound traffic lane,…