City of Catlettsburg v. Sutherland's Administrator

Opinion of the Couet by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The general direction of Louisa street in the city of Catlettsburg, Ky., is north and south. It skints a hill and its paved surface was constructed by digging down the hill on the west side, leaving an embankment on the east side, and in ascending the hill it makes some curves.

On the late evening of June 30, 1931, J. J. Sutherland was driving an automobile south on that street and ascending the hill. He had in his car two fellow travelers. At a point on the street, and just beyond which there was a curve, William Puckett resided with his family on…