Brotherton v. Walden

Appellee, who sued by her father as next friend, recovered a substantial judgment, which is not complained of as being excessive, against Mr. and Mrs. Brotherton, who are husband and wife, to compensate a serious injury which she sustained as the result of a collision with an automobile in which Mrs. Brotherton was driving alone.

The accident occurred about four o’clock in the afternoon of April 23, 1940. Appellee, who is 14 years old, was returning home from school with three other girls. All were walking north on a highway which leads to the railroad station, but which forks before reaching…