Sherrard v. Werline

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the circuit court, based upon the verdict of a jury and entered in an action which was predicated upon a charge that the defendant, John Werline, the eighteen-year-old son of the other defendant, Eunice Werline, so negligently drove a car, owned by the latter, that it ran into and injured the plaintiff who at the time was crossing a public street on foot.

The defendants present seven assignments of error. The first is based upon the denial of their motion for a nonsuit; the second upon a ruling which denied their objections to a…