Montanick Ex Rel. Montanick v. McMillin

— The accident involved in this case occurred at about 3:25 p. m. on November 21, 1935, within the city limits of Ottumwa, on the south approach to the Vine Street bridge crossing the Des Moines river, at a place where a driveway, leading from a rock quarry, enters the approach.

Vine Street runs in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, but in the record is usually indicated as north and south, and that is the way we will refer to it. Where it crosses the Des Moines river there is a bridge that has a roadway for two-way traffic but is hardly wide enough for three cars to pass at the same…