Jones v. Jones

I respectfully dissent from that part of the court’s opinion that relates to the violation of RSA 262-A:21, the yellow-line statute. In my view, this statute has the same purpose as the old “law of the road” which required persons traveling in opposite directions when meeting to turn seasonably to the right of the center. RSA 250:1. This statute was repealed in 1963 and was superseded by RSA ch. 262-A. It was held in L’Esperance v. Sherburne, 85 N.H. 103, 155 A. 203 (1931), that the “law of the road” referred to above was applicable only to those meeting and passing one another in opposite…