T. A. Gillespie Co. v. Cumming

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

On the evening of August 13th, 1897, shortly before nine o’clock, the plaintiff, a young woman, twenty-*371three years of age, was riding a bicycle on the road known as Belleville avenue, in Montclair. It was a moonlight night, but the road lay in the deep shadow of trees. The carriageway was forty feet broad, of which a width of about eighteen ieet in the middle was macadamized. The plaintiff rode on the macadam, a little to the left of the centre line, her companion being behind at her right. When she came to a smooth piece of road having a…