Schlotterbeck Ex Rel. Schlotterbeck v. Anderson

Plaintiff was three and one-half years of age. He had walked with his mother east along the sidewalk on the north side of,Sixth Avenue in Grinnell to the west side of Chatterton Street. There they turned south to cross Sixth Avenue, an east-and-west paved street, thirty feet wide from curb to curb. At that place the parking is eighteen feet wide and slopes down from the sidewalk to the pavement. The mother was wheeling a baby carriage occupied by a younger child.

She testified that as they walked down the slope she saw defendant’s automobile approaching from the west at a distance of about one…