La Tournerie v. State

— Appeal by claimant from a judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing the claim after a trial. Claimant’s intestate was killed on December 3, 1951, at about 6:45 in the morning in an automobile accident which occurred on State Highway Route 97 at a place called Deer Head Hill. Decedent was driving his ear in a northerly direction descending a grade, when his car skidded on a coating of thin ice, struck a bank on the westerly side of the road, bounced back and whirled around throwing decedent out, and finally came to a stop against the bank on the same side of the road. Decedent was alone and…