McDowell v. Interstate Oil Co.

Joe Robert McDowell, when seven years old, died in Sioux City, December 22, 1926, as the result of a collision between a motor truck, owned by the Interstate Oil Company, defendant and appellant, and a small sled on which the boy was coasting. This collision occurred in Sioux City at the intersection of Summit and Eleventh Streets.'

Summit Street extends in a northerly and southerly direction and is intersected at right angles by Eleventh Street, which runs east and west. These streets are very steep at the intersection. Eleventh Street slopes to the west, while Summit slants to the south. The…