Willi v. Schaefer Hitchcock Co.

February 11, 1930, M.L. Bruce was the president and general manager of the M. L. Bruce Company, predecessor corporation of the appellant, which owned a Cord automobile. That afternoon Mr. Bruce, in company with Philip Willi, for whose death the present action was instituted by respondents, respectively, his daughters, son and widow, drove in the Cord automobile south from Sand-point to a cottage owned by Mr. Bruce. On the return trip, passing over a wooden bridge, some 10,000 feet long over an arm of Pend Oreille Lake, the car swerved from the roadway, crashed through the guard-rails, and…