Natell v. Taylor-Fichter Steel Construction Co.

On the 25th day of December, 1934, the infant plaintiff, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, then fourteen years of age, was a passenger in an automobile owned and operated by one William J. Fichter as it was proceeding southerly on the Albany post road at or about the town of Fishkill. An icy snow was falling and the road was very slippery. As the Fichter car approached the crest of a hill it skidded, and thus out of control of the driver, went a distance of some two hundred feet down the hill and crashed into an automobile owned by defendant Leavy and operated by defendant Dubensky.…