Barrow v. Conway Consolidated School District No. 317

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment based on the verdict of the jury in a motor vehicle accident case.

At 8:15 a. m. on October 4, 1946, the respondent Barrow was driving south on U. S. highway No. 99 at a speed of thirty-five miles per hour. Four hundred sixty-five feet from the right-angle crossing of the highway with the Conway-McMurray highway is a standard highway department sign designating the intersection as a school crossing. Barrow had lived in the vicinity for fifty-six years and was familiar with it. By statute, the maximum speed limit for such crossings is fixed at…