Hawley v. Corroon

Action for damages for personal injury suffered by plaintiff’s intestate while riding in an automobile owned by defendant Corroen and operated by defendant Carter. Judgment for the plaintiff affirmed, with costs. The proof discloses that the car operated by the defendant Carter at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour skidded to its right, left the concrete road and traveled a distance of twenty feet, in the course of which it traversed a five-foot dirt shoulder, hit a pole and came to rest against a fence. It appears that the skid from the road occurred on a curve or in the course of…