Goldberg v. Cook

Peterson, Justice.

Plaintiff, who is defendant’s mother, brings this action to recover for personal injuries sustained on December 14, 1935, while riding in the latter’s automobile near Van Horn in the state of Texas, en route with defendant and her two children from Duluth, Minnesota, to Los Angeles, California.

Defendant’s husband had been advised by his physician to spend the approaching winter in California in order to escape the cold in Duluth. The family planned to be with him. Defendant was to go ahead of him, take the children, the maid, and the family car with her, rent a house in or…