Cohen v. Petty

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Plaintiff’s declaration alleged that on December 14, 1930, she was riding as a guest in defendant’s automobile; that defendant failed to exercise reasonable care in its operation, and drove it at a reckless and excessive rate of speed so that he lost control of the ear and propelled it off the road against an embankment on the side of the road, as the result of which plaintiff received permanent injuries. The trial judge gave binding instructions, and the plaintiff appeals.

There were four eyewitnesses to the accident, namely, plaintiff and her sister on the one side,…