Schuster v. Johnson

On the night of February 6th, 1927, the plaintiff was driving his automobile in a northerly direction upon a long steep hill in the town of Newington, and came into collision with a Mack truck, owned by the defendants and in charge of their employee. The surface of the highway was wet and slippery by reason of an accumulation of ice and snow, and the vision of the plaintiff was rendered extremely difficult because of a heavy fog and continuous downpour of rain and sleet which froze on his windshield. The freezing of the sleet upon the windshield prevented the operation of the windshield…