Thomas v. Charter

On the 16th day of July, 1935, between 2 and 3 o ’clock in the afternoon, the plaintiff’s intestate, Raymond Lloy Thomas, was operating a motorcycle northward on highway No. 11, which runs along the city limits of the city of Cedar Rapids, Linn county, Iowa. Thomas was accompanied by a young lady who was riding on the rear of the same seat occupied by him. At a point approximately 700 feet south of where the accident here involved occurred, there is an ascending grade toward the northward, as the highway ascended a viaduct over some railroad tracks, and the highest point of this viaduct is…