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- Title: State v. Barnes
- Author : Hawaii Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 27, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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About 8:30 a.m. on November 29, 1950, Roberta J. Elings was driving the Ford sedan of her husband, plaintiff Calvin W. Elings, eastward on Madison Street in Des Moines, Iowa, and when the front of the car had just passed the center of the intersection with west Fifty-fifth Street the car she was driving was struck on the left side by a taxicab driven by an employee of the defendant. The twenty-foot roadway of each street was graveled. After being struck plaintiffs car upset just east of the intersection and just south of the gravel roadway. It lay on its right side. The right front door came open and Mrs. Elings was so thrown that her legs, with the right one crossed over the top of the left one, protruded through the right front doorway and were caught between the top of the door and the top of the car, which was the upper part of the doorframe. This top part of the car pressed upon the right side of her right leg about three and one-half inches above the kneecap, so that she could not disengage herself. The taxicab stood upright near by. Neither its driver nor its passengers was injured in any way. The driver and a resident living close by at once raised the top of the Ford and Mrs. Elings disengaged herself. The neighbor who assisted in lifting the car testified that: "I observed her leg and saw a kind of bruise. It was puffed up there right on her right thigh." She told defendants driver at this time that she did not believe she was hurt much, just a bruise. She was then in the sixth month of pregnancy. She was taken to the hospital from the scene of the collision, for examination, [243 Iowa Page 817]
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