Ortwein v. Droste

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

As Miss Elenora Ortwein, 25, was starting to her place of employment in Covington about six o’clock on February 25th, 1919, she was invited to ride in the automobile of appellee Droste and informed that he was driving in the direction she was traveling. She accepted the invitation and entering the car' took a seat beside Droste, who was driving, and between Droste and one Kinsler, three on one seat.

It was a dark rainy morning and .the streets were slick. The car had not proceeded very far before it ran into an iron telephone pole standing inside…