Martin v. Hodsdon

The defendant Hodsdon was traveling southerly on his own side of the highway either in the westerly lane or straddling its easterly line. It was a three-lane highway made up of two lanes of concrete, the westerly one of the three of macadam. The accident happened in the middle of the afternoon of a fair day. The road was dry with the possible exception of the easterly lane, which may have been wet due to melting snow. The traveled highway was 32 feet 10 inches wide with shoulders equal in width making a distance of 42 feet between snow banks on each side. The defendant testified that the…