Harlan v. Taylor

The plaintiff, as the surviving mother of Jessie Slone, commenced an action against the defendant to recover damages for the injury and death of her daughter while riding in an automobile owned by the defendant. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, and from the judgment entered thereon the plaintiff has appealed.

On the eighth day of September, 1930, Jessie Slone and the defendant Alice Taylor left Oakland in a Ford coupe intending to go by Dublin Pass to Modesto. At a point between Livermore and Dublin the automobile left the highway, ran across a ditch and turned over. As a…