Burke v. Molloy

Mr. Presiding Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court.

In the early morning of June 8, 1935, plaintiff appellee, hereinafter called plaintiff, and defendant appellant, hereinafter called defendant, were returning from a dance at Benld, Illinois, to their home in Alton, Illinois. There were with plaintiff and defendant Jean Schaffer and Leland Kennedy. They were all riding in defendant’s car and were there as the invited guests of defendant. On the way home defendant was driving his car at various rates of speed described by the different witnesses at 50, 55 and 60 miles an hour. He was…