Weeks v. Raper

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the jury’s verdict in favor of the defendants in a personal injury action.

The accident which gave rise to this litigation occurred near Napa on January 18, 1953, at approximately 2 o’clock in the morning on a narrow, two lane county highway which had virtually no shoulders. It was dark and misty. Appellant Venus Weeks, accompanied by her husband and mother, was driving west at approximately 35 miles per hour. Respondent Donald Raper, a minor, was proceeding in the same direction at a speed of between 40 and 50 miles per hour. He was traveling…