Galeppi Bros. Inc. v. Bartlett

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from an automobile accident wherein appellee was operating an automobile and struck a cow belonging to appellants, was injured, and obtained a judgment for $5,000 and costs.

Appellee left Susanville, California, about 5 o’clock in the afternoon of October 4, 1935, and was driving his automobile south toward Reno, Nevada, on U. S. Highway No. 395. About 63 miles from Susanville, he went over a hill, and as he was going down the decline, the accident occurred. Appellee’s speed was about 45 miles an hour until somewhere between 35 and 60 feet of the point…