Willbanks v. Laster

Appellee recovered a judgment for $5,000 to compensate a personal injury which she sustained as the result of a collision between an automobile in which she was riding,, driven by her husband, and an automobile driven by appellant.

For the reversal of this judgment it is insisted, first, that a verdict should have been directed in appellant’s, favor for the reasons, (a) that the undisputed testimony shows that the sole proximate cause of the collision and consequent injury was the negligence of appellee’s husband and, (b) that appellee was guilty of contributory negligence; second, that…