Frei v. Brownlee

The opinion heretofore filed is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefore.

McGHEE, Justice.

This case arose out of an automobile accident which occurred on October 3, 1949, at about 7:40 p. m., at a point approximately twenty miles north of Deming, New Mexico, on U. S. Highway No. 260. The plaintiff, then of the age of five years, was riding with his family in an automobile driven by his father, Edward J. Frei, Sr. This automobile and one driven by the appellant’s decedent, Roma Rea Brownlee, traveling in the opposite direction from the Frei automobile, collided in Frei’s lane of…