Morgan Hill Paving Co. v. Fonville

■ THOMAS, J.

The suit is for personal injuries to passenger in an automobile. Defendant was a contractor, doing the work of paving a public highway. The locus in quo was where a detour sign was placed upon a part of that paved roadway. The trial was upon count 4, declaring for the maintenance of the obstruction partly across the public highway, and the negligent failure—

“to have and maintain proper lights, signals or other warning of the presence of said barricade, plank or other obstruction across or partly across said highway at said point, and as a proximate consequence of said negligence,…