Gulley v. Hamm

Action by appellee against appellant to recover for the wrongful death of appellee’s 14 year old son. Verdict and judgment for $5,125. The overruling of appellant’s motion for new trial is assigned as error.

On October 19, 1944, the boy was riding a bicycle south on the west side of Sherman Drive in Indianapolis, and the appellant was driving a car north behind another car on the east side thereof. They were approaching a bridge or culvert, some 18 or 20 feet long, from opposite directions. Just before entering the bridge, the appellant swerved to the left of the center of the road and into…