Clayton v. Vallaster

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is the appeal of the defendants below from plaintiff’s judgment entered upon the verdict of the i^y.

At the trial the evidence tended to show (among others) the following matters of fact: In the early hours of the morning of July 9th, 1936 (between one and two o’clock), the plaintiff was driving his automobile at a speed of from thirty-five to forty miles an hour, on state highway Ho. 4 in Ocean county, commonly known as the Atlantic City Boulevard. The road was paved with twenty feet of concrete with five-foot dirt shoulders on either…