Strnad v. Co-Operative Insurance Mutual

About 12:15 a. m. on April 26, 1948, Strnad drove his Ford car east on Highway 22 to its intersection with Highway 141 at Stiles Junction. He then turned south or to his right onto Highway 141, a concrete-surfaced highway twenty feet wide, except for a stretch of black-top a short distance south of where the collision in question took place. He was driving, according to his testimony, at a speed of about forty to forty-five miles an hour.

The deceased, Donald Meleski, was driving his 1948 Chrysler car north from Stiles village along Highway 141 at a speed at some points estimated to be eighty…