Nelson v. Broderick & Bascom Rope Co.

September 6, 1955, Tom Verhoef, an employee of Broderick & Bascom Rope Company, and Ardelle Nelson were engaged in a lovers’ quarrel. They had discussed their differences at some length in a telephone conversation that morning. Shortly thereafter, at approximately twelve o’clock noon, while Verhoef was driving a company automobile out of the driveway from a parking area, he was intercepted head on by Ardelle Nelson, driving her Cadillac automobile. Having blocked the exit, she forced Verhoef to back his car into the lot. She pursued him around the parking lot until she cornered his car with…