Hackett v. Alamito Sanitary Dairy Co.

Seventeenth street in the city of Omaha is 60 feet wide *201from curb to curb and is paved with asphalt. During the construction of a building on the west side of the street, a high board fence was built at a distance of 40 feet from the west curb, leaving the street at this point accessible for vehicular traffic only 20 feet wide. On June 21, 1909, a wagon belonging to the defendant, loaded with milk cans, was being driven northward on Seventeenth street between Harney and Earnam streets along this 20-foot roadway. The view of the driver to the sides or backward was unobstructed. Two boys, Harry…