Fleming v. Thornton

Defendant was the owner and driver of the car involved herein; the plaintiff, who was her guest on the automobile trip in controversy, was her aunt. Defendant’s car was a 1926 Model T Ford, which she purchased secondhand in August, 1930, and the accident occurred on the 12th day of September following. The brakes on the car were defective and inefficient, which fact was known to the defendant at all times.

The' defendant invited the plaintiff to go with her to her father’s watermelon patch near Shipley, Iowa (a small town southwest of Nevada), where the defendant loaded in the back of her Ford…