Lorig v. Brunson

The petition as amended alleged facts tending to show that her son, age 14 years, was crossing a public highway, which was straight and unobstructed, and that he was in plain view to approaching automobiles from the north; that he had his back turned towards the north; that after he had gotten within one foot of the other side of the road, the left side thereof going towards Albany, the direction in which the truck of the defendants was traveling, the defendants’ truck swerved to the left over the center white line of the highway and over the extreme left and struck the plaintiff’s son as he…