Wood v. Branning

— On the afternoon of January 4, 1931, the plaintiff-appellee was driving his automobile in a westerly direction on the public highway. He was approaching and about to pass a house on the south side of the highway, from which premises a driveway entered the public highway from the south. Some evergreen trees were growing along the east side of the driveway and in the corner of the yard near the point where the driveway entered the highway, and the view to the east was thereby obstructed.

The defendant neither saw nor heard the plaintiff coming until the collision occurred. The defendant gave…