Murphy v. Granz

The decedent was struck by the defendant’s automobile while he was walking along the highway from Manchester to Bedford and the defendant was driving in the same direction. The accident happened at midnight of September 5, 1939, or shortly thereafter. The black, hard surface of the highway was twenty-one to twenty-four feet wide. After the accident the decedent’s body was found lying on the pavement at least five or six feet in from the west side of the tarvia. Both parties had been proceeding southward.

The defendant urges that it cannot be found that he was guilty of causal negligence as a…