Janse v. Haywood

Defendant, on the 10th day of December, 1933, at about six o’clock in the evening, while driving his automobile north on a public highway about a half mile south of the village of Martin in Allegan county, overtook and attempted to pass an automobile ahead of him and, when abreast thereof, ran down and killed two of three girls walking side by side on the left side of the highway, one of whom was plaintiff’s decedent, then 15 years of age. The girls were walking facing approaching traffic and defendant came from the rear and, to pass the car ahead of him, turned into the other lane of traffic…