Long v. Archer

This appeal resulted from an action for personal injuries brought by the appellee Vina Archer against the appellant Fred W. Long and the appellee Walter Laws. The complaint was in three paragraphs, which are denominated in the record as the amended second, the amended third, and the fourth, but for convenience we shall refer to them, respectively, as the first, second, and third paragraphs.

Hoffman Street extends east and west and Columbia-Avenue north and south, intersecting at right angles, in the City of Hammond. By a city ordinance, Hoffman Street was a preferential thoroughfare, and there…