Hood v. Grooms

This was an action by plaintiff in error, a minor, who sued by his next friend, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision of a Ford automobile with a motorcycle.

The declaration contains only one count, and avers that defendant, Mrs. Grooms, negligently, carelessly and unlawfully drove at a high rate of speed a Ford automobile, owned by her husband for family purposes, against a motorcycle in which plaintiff was riding as a passenger, whereby and on account of which plaintiff sustained serious and permanent injuries, for which he sued..

The defendant pleaded not…