Bobby C. v. State

The three claimants in these consolidated claims seek damages for personal injuries allegedly caused by respondent’s negligence in failing to keep the weeds mowed on the shoulder of a highway; in allowing a concrete culvert on the shoulder to be obscured from view by weeds growing up around it; and in failing to provide any warning of this alleged dangerous condition.

All three claimants were injured in the same accident. They were riding in the front seat of a car, owned and driven by Bobby Clark, when the right front tire blew out. The car, after pulling off the paved highway onto the…