Bechard v. State

Cross appeals by each claimant and by the State in each claim from judgments of the Court of Claims in favor of the claimants. The claimants are husband and wife and the motor vehicle involved in the accident was owned by the husband who was present in it, but was being driven by the wife. The car was proceeding on a grade on a State highway approaching a bridge used as an overhead railroad crossing. There was wet snow “packed on the highway” and it was slippery. The car skidded across the highway, the rear end colliding with concrete guard posts pushing them over, and continued down the…