Elder v. Plaza Railway

Civil action to recover damages for an alleged negligent injury resulting from a collision between defendant's street car and plaintiff's automobile.

The evidence tends to show that on the night of 2 January, 1926, about 11:25 p.m., the plaintiff, Mrs. Kathryn L. Elder, was driving eastwardly along Central Avenue in the city of Charlotte in a closed Ford coupe, when she collided with one of the defendant's street cars moving westwardly along said street, and was seriously injured.

Plaintiff testified substantially as follows: I was riding behind a Chrysler car which was throttled down to three…