Simcoe v. Pope

Otis, Justice.

This is an action for personal injuries sustained by a passenger riding in an automobile operated by her son when it collided with a vehicle driven by the defendant. After a verdict in favor of defendant, the court denied plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, from which order plaintiff appeals.

On March 6, 1959, the day of the accident, plaintiff asked her son, Ralph Simcoe, Jr., then 17 years of age, to drive her to a National Tea store in Columbia Heights to shop for groceries. Mrs. Simcoe had no driver’s license. The vehicle used that day was registered in plaintiff’s name…