Mancaniello v. Guile

Shortly before 8 o’clock in the evening of Sunday, August 25, 1963, Peter Mancaniello was a passenger in an automobile owned and operated by his son, John Mancaniello, who was one of the defendants in this action. They were traveling in heavy, northbound traffic, on route 9, a two-lane highway with narrow shoulders. Estimates as to the speed of the northbound traffic ranged between thirty and forty-five miles per hour. The posted speed limit was forty-five miles per hour. Immediately ahead of the Mancaniello car were one or two vehicles, and these were preceded, in the sequence hereinafter…