Kurtz v. Morse Oil Co.

The plaintiff’s decedent, a boy of the age of fifteen and one half years, was killed as a result of a collision between a car which he was driving and the oil truck of the defendant, as it came around a curve in the road from the opposite direction. The road was of macadam with gravel and dirt shoulders. At the point of collision there was no shoulder on the plaintiff’s right side of the road which was the inside of the curve, the macadamized roadway ending with a ditch, but on the outside of the curve on the defendant’s right there was a shoulder four feet in width and beyond that a graded…