Young v. Groenendal

James H. Young, administrator of the estate of Paul Bobert Young, deceased, brought this wrongful death action1 against the defendants, Bobert W. Groenendal and Harry H. Fetterly, doing business as Pete’s Service Center No. 2, for maintaining a nuisance which was the alleged proximate cause of the death of plaintiff’s decedent.

On October 12, 1962, Paul Bobert Young, a 13-year-old boy was riding his bicycle in a westerly direction on a sidewalk adjacent to the south side of Elizabeth Lake road. One Boy Bodney Barnes was driving his ear in an easterly direction in the lane closest to the south…