Pickering v. Snyder
Pickering v. Snyder
Opinion of the Court
On June 10, 1917, plaintiffs were riding north on the south Delaware River Road on a motorcycle with a side car attachment and defendant, with members of his family and friends, was driving south on the same road in a seven passenger touring car. A short distance south of the City of Easton at a sharp curve in the road, known as “Dead Man’s Curve,” the two cars collided, resulting in both plaintiffs receiving serious injuries. Plaintiffs alleged negligence on the part of defendant and in an action of trespass recovered verdicts. Defendant appealed from dismissal of rules for judgments n. o. v. and a new trial.
The roadway at the point of the accident is about twenty feet in width, sixteen feet of which is of macadam construction with asphalt covering, the remaining four feet ordinary earth surface.
The testimony was conflicting. That introduced on part of plaintiffs was to the effect that they were riding north on the right, or river, side of the road, with the right wheels of the motorcycle traveling on the dirt part of the roadway and the left wheels on the asphalt, at a speed of ten or twelve miles an hour; that defendant’s car came in sight in front of them when sixty feet dis
The judgment is affirmed.
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- Negligence — Automobiles — Collision between motorcycle and automobile—Conflicting evidence—Wrong side of road—Speed— Case for jury. In an accident case growing out of a collision between a motorcycle and an automobile at a sharp curve in a narrow road, the case is for the jury where the evidence .for plaintiff, although contradicted, tends to show that defendant drove his automobile on the wrong side of the road, at a speed of thirty miles an hour, without looking ahead for approaching vehicles.