Staudenmayer v. City Transit Co.

Pau'l, Ward, Associate Justice.

Tbe City Transit Company, owner of a garage in Jonesboro, secured a jury verdict against June Staudenmayer [and her guardian, Lelia B. Staudenmayer] in the amount of $585.05, for negligently driving, or causing to be driven, an automobile through its garage door, damaging said building and some of the contents thereof. The specific allegation of negligence was:

“The collision and the resulting damage were the direct and proximate result of the negligence of the defendant in becoming drunk and engaging in a drunken party with the unknown person occupying the car…