Herbert v. Durgis

At about 1:30 a. m. on July 16, 1933, Orville McMann, accompanied by Zelma Shanks and plaintiff Mrs. Gladys Herbert, while returning from a dance, drove a roadster in a northerly direction towards Forrester, Michigan, on M-29, a gravel road, approximately 16 feet wide, skirting the shore of Lake Huron. About a mile south of Forrester, the road proceeds across a bridge 40 feet long and from 13 to 16 feet wide, the testimony being in conflict as to the exact width. A sign at the northerly approach to the bridge read, “narrow bridge, one way traffic.” As the roadster approached the bridge, a…