McClure v. Latta

This cause arises from a one-car accident on December 31, 1953, wherein an automobile belonging to the George Acuff Drilling Company, and driven by Ernest O. McClure, went off -the Campbell curve on the Lander-Hudson highway. Mrs. Bernetta Latta, a guest of the driver McClure, was seriously injured in the crash; she with her husband brought'suit against both McClure and the George Acuff Drilling Company. At the close of plaintiffs’ case, the court on motion dismissed as to the company, and the case proceeded against McClure. The jury rendered a verdict in favor of Mrs. Latta in the sum of…