Leonard v. Bartle

The action is trespass on the case for negligence. Plaintiff had a verdict and the case is in this court on defendant’s bill of exceptions.

Defendant is charged with recklessly operating and driving his automobile on a public highway at an excessive and improper speed, thereby causing personal injury to plaintiff, a guest and free passenger in defendant’s car.

Plaintiff, who is eighteen years of age, and a young woman friend went to a public dance at Crescent Park on the evening of May 24, 1924. There they danced with two young men friends, Johnson and Feeley. About eleven o’clock, at the…