Vidal v. Errol

The plaintiff’s intestate met her death upon May 30, 1929, when the automobile in which she was riding was driven over the edge of an embankment alongside a highway in the town of Errol, and rolled into the Androscoggin river. The embankment which was “pretty steep” with a drop of six or eight feet to the river, was unrailed at the point of accident, and the absence of a railing was the defect of which the plaintiff complained. The accident happened late at night and a heavy fog prevailed at the time. There were five persons in the car, three young men and two girls, one of whom was the…