Roberts v. . Town of Eaton

On December 24, 1921, plaintiff’s intestate, Myra E. Roberts, was driving a Chevrolet automobile weighing 3,000 pounds on a well-traveled hillside dirt road in the town of Eaton. Owing to usual climatic and seasonal conditions, the road was deeply rutted and the ground was frozen and slippery. She was traveling in an easterly direction. She met a west-bound car at a point in the road where it runs near a pond towards which the land declines somewhat abruptly. She tried to get her car out of the ruts in order to pass the other car by backing and going ahead. As she went ahead on a third…