Cannon v. Bassett

The plaintiffs, travelling in an automobile driven by the plaintiff George B. Cannon, were ascending a hill in Brookfield on the route to Boston when a car driven by a servant of the defendant came into the road from their right at some distance ahead of them and preceded them up the hill. The travelled surface of the road was about twenty-four feet wide. It was bounded on the right by a steep bank rising immediately from the right hand edge to a height of five or six feet. On this bank, hidden from the roadway, was a driveway to a house on the right which came into the road at a sharp, acute…