Budnick v. Peterson

On May 18, 1920, at about 11 o’clock at night, 3 boys, William Peters, Charles Swift and Clarence Herbst, each about 15 years of age, who had been attending an entertainment at a sehoolhouse and were returning to their homes, were going north, walking abreast with locked arms, along what is known as Henry street, a highway just outside the limits of the city of Muskegon. This street was 66 feet in width and had in the center a 16-foot asphalt pavement, without curbs. The defendant was driving an automobile in the same direction the boys were walking. They saw his car coming behind them when…