Bennett v. Spencer

In this opinion the parties will usually be referred to by their proper names.

Elizabeth Spencer, a girl 17 years old, the daughter of Thomas M. Spencer, the co-defendant in this suit, was driving her father’s Chevrolet sedan with her young friend and schoolmate, Sarah Nichols, in the town of South Boston, Virginia, on January 23, 1935, at about 7:15 o’clock P. M. On this drive they entered Main street at the post office and turned south to the right intending to continue on Main street to the Southern Railway depot and there turn around and go back to Miss Spencer’s home. They proceeded on…