Murphy v. Adams

The plaintiff claimed to have proved, pursuant to the allegations of her complaint, that she was standing, with reasonable care, on a part of the highway commonly used by foot passengers, and in a place two or three feet outside of the edge of the macadamized part of the road commonly used by vehicles, when she"was suddenly struck by a motor-car which the defendant was operating at a speed of about forty miles an hour, without proper headlights and without signal of his approach. On the other side, the defendant claimed to have proved that his headlights were lighted when he first saw the…