Semler v. Oertwig

About eleven o ’clock on the night of August 25, 1941, plaintiff’s intestate was driving his 1929-model Pontiac coupé westward on paved Highway No. 69, between Davis City and Lamoni, in Decatur county. His wife, the plaintiff, and Mamie Bonnett, a guest, were riding with him. They were proceeding to their homes in Lamoni.- The car had just descended the western slope of a small hill, and, after traversing a short' level stretch, was going up another hill with less than a five per cent grade, and was about five hundred feet from its top when the car was struck on the rear left-hand corner, by…