Sumner v. Griswold

Defendant, Ruth Griswold, js appealing from a judgment of the circuit court of Ogle county, entered in a trial without a jury, in favor of plaintiffs, Harold Sumner and Alice Sumner, in the amount of $2,540 for property damage and personal injuries sustained when plaintiffs’ car collided into the wagon and team driven by James Griswold, husband of the defendant appellant.

The issue presented upon this appeal is whether plaintiffs established that they were in the exercise of due care for their own safety, and that James Griswold was guilty of negligence, while acting as the agent of defendant,…