Merrill v. Shumway

Plaintiff sued for damages resulting from injuries sustained in an intersection automobile accident. She was a guest passenger in an automobile being driven by her father. It collided with another automobile which was owned and being driven by defendant. Plaintiff appeals from judgment of no cause for action entered by the trial judge, as trier of the facts, on its finding of no negligence on defendant’s part which was a proximate cause of the accident.

The first question plaintiff raises on appeal is whether it was error for the court to deny plaintiff’s motion to transfer the case from the…