Levanti v. Dorris

By this appeal defendant seeks reversal of a judgment entered by the circuit court of Franklin county in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $8,000. The judgment was rendered on a verdict of the jury for that amount and the jury also returned a special interrogatory to the effect that defendant’s intestate was guilty of wilful and wanton misconduct.

On the evening of August 9, 1948, at about seven o’clock, defendant’s intestate, Aline Covelli, had borrowed her brother’s 1948 Mercury convertible and was driving along state highway 149 in a westerly direction approximately four miles west of…