Young Exploration Co. v. Black

This is an action for damages for personal injuries growing out of a collision between a motorcycle and pickup truck, brought by the plaintiff, Frank Benjamin Black, ah infant, by Lila Black, his next friend, against Young Exploration Company, a corporation. The trial court submitted the cause to a jury, which returned a verdict for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.

In his petition plaintiff alleges that he was, at the time of the injury, seventeen years of age; that the accident in which he was injured occurred on April 14, 1948; that he was riding a motorcycle owned by him in an easterly…