Johnson v. Hunter

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment rendered on a verdict in favor of the defendant. The action arose as a result of an automobile collision between a 1936 Ford coupe driven by the plaintiff and a 1947 De Soto sedan driven by the defendant. On the morning of February 3, 1949, the parties approached a one-lane bridge across the Scioto River, near the village of Lucasville, from opposite directions. The plaintiff was driving in an easterly direction and the defendant was driving in a westerly direction. The bridge on which the collision occurred is about 450 feet long,…