Piper v. Brickley

The defendant and appellant, D. E. Brickley, was a resident of Jones county, Iowa, and on the 29th of August, 1932, was driving east through Lee county, 111., on highway No. 30, generally known as the Lincoln Highway. His car was being operated by a servant or agent, named W. H. Merritt. At a point on said highway about three miles west of the city of Dixon, in Lee county, 111., the car ran into and struck Lawrence F. Piper, a boy of eleven years of age. Piper, at the time he was struck, was walking on the south side of the highway, but off the pavement five feet. The plaintiff is the father…