Rock v. Concrete Materials, Inc.

On December 14, 1968 at about 9:00 p.m., Lester Bock, plaintiff’s deceased husband, was killed when the snowmobile he was operating, with plaintiff as a passenger, crashed into a gate on a private roadway owned by defendant Concrete Materials, Inc. (hereinafter, Concrete). The gate consisted of a metallic pipe in a horizontal position approximately four feet off the ground, chained to two posts on either side of the road. It had been erected in 1959 by defendant Bero Construction Corp. (hereinafter referred to as Bero), Concrete’s predecessor in title, to prevent thievery and was located…