Hazeltine v. Johnson

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, as guardian ad litem for his minor son, a boy of twelve, sued for damages for injuries sustained by the minor as a consequence of the claimed negligence of the appellant. The jury returned a verdict for appellee in the amount of $6,-000.

The incident out of which the suit arose took place in the daytime on a clear stretch *868of oiled highway, in a district restricted as to the speed of motor vehicles. The boy was riding a bicycle in a northerly direction on the right shoulder of the road. The appellant, proceeding in an automobile in the same direction, is shown…