Westlund v. Iverson

On August 27, 1921, defendant Lloyd Iverson was driving a Ford sedan belonging to defendant Anna Iverson, his mother, on a public highway. Plaintiff was traveling on foot on the same *53highway. The road was the Yellowstone trail in the outskirts of Montevideo and was a wide, well-graded and much traveled road. There was no sidewalk, but there was a well traveled footpath alongside of the road. This path was on the very edge of the roadway, but so distinct from it that “people on the footpath go back and forth there unconcerned about the cars going in the roadway.” Plaintiff was walking on this…