Carpenter v. Township of Bloomingdale

On a dark, rainy night, plaintiff was driving a team of horses, hitched to a farm wagon, on a country highway. Her husband rode with her in the wagon seat. They, going north, were facing the rain, and, to avoid that, temporarily at least, they left the road usually traveled by them, turned west to go home by another highway, with which plaintiff was not familiar. While crossing a fill between two hills, the hind end of the wagon slid off the edge of the traveled way, the team and wagon were precipitated down the embankment. • Plaintiff was thrown and severely injured. She testified that on…