Lane v. Hatfield

The tragic collision with which we are here concerned occurred about four and a half miles south of Salem upon a highway known as the Skyline road which runs in a general northerly and southerly direction. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lane, the parents of plaintiff’s decedent, Alice Marie Lane, lived on the easterly side of this road. Their mail box was on the westerly side two and a half feet west from the pavement. At the foot of and on the westerly side of the post supporting the mail box was a small wooden box in which milk bottles were deposited for a customer. On the easterly side of the…