Hodge v. Borden

SMITH, Justice.

Appellant appeals from a judgment entered against him awarding damages to respondents for injuries sustained in an automobile accident; appellant also appeals from an order denying a motion for a new trial and from an order denying judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The events leading up to the accident, and the happening of the accident, on the mountain road north of the City of Boise, are hereinafter set forth.

On Saturday, October 19, 1963, at about 10:00 o’clock in the evening, respondent Steve Hodge and his wife Louise K. Hodge who was a deaf-mute, appellant, Alvin…