Tianada Leonard v. Leonard Helms

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Tianada Leonard, defendant below, from a judgment of the District Court awarding Leonard Helms, the plaintiff below, damages in the sum of $13,000 for serious injuries suffered by him in an automobile accident which occurred in Bristol, Virginia, when Miss Leonard was driving Helms’s Cadillac automobile, with Helms seated beside her, and drove the car into a stone wall at a street intersection.

The parties resided in Bristol on the borderline between Virginia and Tennessee. Both unmarried and in their thirties, they had known one another for several…