Stiles v. Caddick

Appeal from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury rendered at Trial Term, Supreme Court, Washington County. The infant plaintiff Harold Stiles, when age 13, was struck by a car operated by defendant Caddiek, while crossing a street in the business section of the Village of Fort Ann. The proof is clear that the automobile was traveling at a high and dangerous rate of speed through this part of the village. The operator himself said he was traveling at 30 miles an hour; and there is testimony which the jury could well have accepted, that he was driving 45 miles an hour. The main argument…