Kaley v. Huntley

While riding gratuitously as a guest in an automobile owned by defendant D. J. Huntley and driven by his codefendant and daughter, Cynthia Huntley, the plaintiff, Helene J. Kaley, received painful and substantial personal injuries through the alleged negligence of the driver in the operation of the car. In the trial below defendants had a verdict which the trial judge later set aside and granted a new trial on tire specified ground of error in the instructions. From that order the defendants appealed.

There were several specifications of negligence (in that defendants failed to exercise the…