Booth v. Coldiron

OPINION

By MIDDLETON, PJ.

It appears from the record that on January 25, 1932, C. W. Booth was driving a Ford automobile in an easterly direction upon state route No. 140 approximately pne mile east of Slocum, Ohio; that while said car was being’ so driven it struck Virgil Coldiron and severely injured the boy who was then between seven and eight years of age. His father, Roy Coldiron, as the boy’s next friend, instituted this action for damages sustained by the boy and by the verdict of a jury recovered damages in the sum of $4,900.

While the petition in error contains various assignments of…