Wilson v. State

Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims which dismissed on the merits appellant’s claim for personal injuries and property damage. He was traveling in an automobile along a State highway in the town and county of Essex and came around a curve to the summit of Brier hill and began the descent of about an eight per cent grade. When his car, traveling at from twenty to thirty miles an hour, was alongside a steep clay bank, it slid and skidded upon the wet and pasty clay which had washed down upon the hard surface of the pavement from the adjacent bank, or had been carried there by passing…