Laird v. Berthelote

Action for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by plaintiff through the negligence of the defendants. The defendants Berthelote, Crossan and Watters were at the time of the accident members of the board of county commissioners of Hill county, and the defendant Neilson was the county bridge foreman. At about 8 o’clock on the evening of October 7, 1918, James Laird, accompanied by the plaintiff, his wife, was driving a Ford car from Joplin, Liberty county, to Havre, Hill county, to enable the plaintiff to take the early morning train on the Great Northern Railroad from that place to…