Crawford v. Nilan

On Sunday evening, June 16,1940 a tragic accident occurred on a State highway at a point some three or four miles from the village of Ellenville, N. Y. The automobile in which three of the four plaintiffs and the intestate of the fourth were riding, while traveling on a down grade, came into collision with an automobile owned by the defendant' and operated by one Woodrow Smith. Three of the plaintiffs were injured and the intestate of the fourth, the wife of the operator of the car, was killed. Smith was also killed by the collision.

The highway where the collision occurred was the most…