Watkins v. Byrnes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was an action to recover for injuries sustained in a collision of William Byrnes’ automobile with the mule-drawn wagon of Cora Watkins, in which she and three of her children were riding at the time. Plaintiff and her family were traveling on a highway in an easterly direction, her son driving the mules. They were proceeding on the left or north side of the road, which appears to have been the beaten portion of it. The defendant’s *173automobile was following the wagon, and as it approached plaintiff’s vehicle from behind the horn of…