Legal Opinion
Bowley v. Smith
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 30, 1932PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
This action is brought by the administrator of a traveller who was killed on a highway in Gorham, for the benefit of a widow and heir-at-law as provided by statute.
The traveller, driving a coupe in an easterly direction, just before midnight, on a September day, meeting a truck loaded with telephone poles, drove so that the forward end of one of the poles hit the left upright of the automobile, a sliver from the pole shattered the windshield of the automobile, striking the head of the driver and killing him instantly.
The defendant pleaded the general issue and contributory negligence on the…
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