Baskerville v. Kofsky

Two young men on a party with their girls set out in their car one evening, Kofsky, the present defendant, driving. On reaching an intersection near the Essex county court house in Newark, they sought to beat the red light, and in doing so, on reaching the far side of the intersection, struck an old colored woman who had just stepped off the curb. Their ear careened some distance up the street, stopping head-on into a pole, leaving the woman tying on the street, with both legs broken, the bones smashed and protruding through the flesh. Her injuries were so serious that she was confined to the…