Ruiz v. Faulkner

EUBANK, Presiding Judge.

Involved in this appeal is a personal injury to an eight and one-half year old child, the plaintiff and appellant herein. The child ran into a road while chasing a ball and was hit by a 1955 Pontiac 4-door sedan owned and driven by the defendant and appellee. A negligence action was filed by the plaintiff and the defendant answered denying liability and raising contributory negligence as an affirmative defense. Following a trial by jury, a verdict was returned in defendant’s favor and plaintiff appeals from the entry of the resulting judgment.

The accident occurred at…