It will be referred to as the Youngs car. On the late afternoon of October 23, 1956, decedent, together with her husband's parents, was in an automobile owned by her father-in-law proceeding north on Jersey Ridge Road. The plaintiff is the administrator of her estate. Kimberly Road runs east and west with a statutory speed limit of 45 miles per hour.Īs a result of the collision, Bernice Mildred Youngs died. Jersey Ridge Road runs north and south with stop signs requiring traffic to stop before crossing Kimberly Road. This is an action resulting from a collision of motor vehicles at the intersection of Kimberly Road and Jersey Ridge Road in the suburban area of Davenport. Lambach, Shorey & Plath, Davenport, for appellee.

John Francis FORT, and James Lee Connell, Appellants. YOUNGS, as Administrator of the Estate of Bernice Mildred Youngs, Deceased, Appellee, Though Drew often comes across as a stiff Victorian stereotype, Lee writes with empathy for small, steadfast Lanthy, her people, and her simple, sufficient way of life.Marvin A. Drew, aware that Lanthy could not survive away from her beloved Gap, accepts a job there as schoolmaster and imports a brass bed (gold, to her) for their new home. There is a tense moment when Drew returns and Lanthy stabs her hand to keep her outraged father from shooting her returning seducer but happiness is complete when the couple wed. Meanwhile, unwavering Lanthy has named their daughter Glory and rejected the new preacher's proposal. It is more than a year before the sister dies and Drew clears up her affairs and returns. When Drew is called back to Boston for a sister's illness, Lanthy is pregnant, but she doesn't mention this in the response she sends to his one early letter. (We learn later that he is a former alcoholic from a well-to-do Boston family, now pursuing an interest in nature study on the advice of a family doctor.) Less understandable than Lanthy's is his immediate interest and feeling for her-but in this kind of story, love does not need reasons. Lame since birth and the oldest of three sisters, Lanthy fights off her marriage-minded cousin's advances but is drawn at first sight to newcomer Drew Thorndike, an educated young stranger who settles down in a shack on the Farr's property.

A sweet love story that seems to unfold naturally, without hurry, like life in Appalachia's Dewfall Gap around 1910, when Lanthy (Ailanthus) Farr is 18.

The People Therein by Mildred Lee