Nelson v. Armistead

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant entered on the verdict of a jury which found for defendant, in a suit brought under the Injuries Act to recover damages resulting from the wrongful deaths of plaintiffs’ intestates Louis Nelson, aged 10, and John Peyton, aged 5, while riding as guests in defendant’s automobile.

On Sunday, January 23,1938, the defendant, Floyd Armistead, drove his automobile, an Oldsmobile four-door sedan, from Chicago to Pistakee Lake in Lake county, Illinois, accompanied by his nephew Buben , Armistead and one Albert Nelson, father of Louis Nelson, for…