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- Title: Finch v. Phillips
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 07, 1958
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 51 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This was an action to recover damages for wrongful death
resulting from a collision at the intersection of two unmarked
county highways. From a general verdict and judgment in favor of
the plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Briefly stated, the petition, filed by decedent's widow and son
(plaintiffs, appellees), alleged that on April 24, 1955,
decedent, Eldon Finch, was driving his farm truck east on a
county highway approaching an unmarked intersection, and
defendant (appellant) Larry Phillips was driving his father's
automobile north toward the same intersection; that decedent's
view of the north-south highway was obscured by a sharp decline
250 feet south of the intersection and by high weeds and a land
terrace; that decedent entered the intersection at a cautious
rate of speed at a time when defendant's vehicle was some
distance south thereof, but defendant was driving at such an
excessive amount of speed (seventy miles an hour) that he crashed
into the right rear side of decedent's
[183 Kan. 220]