Lynch v. Pratt

On the night of April 5, 1924, between eight and nine o’clock, Helen P. Lynch and her infant children, in company with a police officer, Berner, were walking along a Bronx thoroughfare which retained the character of a rural highway; it had no sidewalks. The night was dark. The defendant Eggett was driving an automobile without headlights upon this road; his sidelights were lit, however, and were seen approximately 150 feet ahead of the vehicle. There is evidence that he blew his horn when he was about 150 feet from the point at which the accident in question occurred, and that he had had no…