Ward v. Cozzi

This is a personal injury case in which the plaintiff, Martha Ward Horton, was awarded $5,000 damages for injuries she received in an automobile accident at Ridgeland Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, Oak Park, on March 26, 1950.

She was a front seat passenger in a car being driven north on Ridgeland by Carl Horton, the man she later married. As the car proceeded across Jackson, an east-west street, it was struck in the middle of the right side by the auto of the defendant, Ernest Cozzi, which was traveling west on Jackson. As a result of this collision Horton’s car hit a third one driven by…