Beard v. Dodd

I

Statement on the Appeal

Staton, J.

David Beard was driving Betty Jean Dodd home from school in his 1964 Corvair convertible. There was a hump in the street at the intersection of Columbia and Kingston in Fort Wayne, Indiana, which would cause all four wheels of an automobile to leave the pavement if traversed at a sufficient rate of speed. Just before reaching the intersection, David said to Betty, “Hold on, here we go.” After going over the hump in the street, the 1964 Corvair convertible went out of control striking the right front edge of the median strip. The Corvair convertible then…