Casil v. Katsuhei Murata

opinion of the court by

Banks, J.

This case is the outcome of an auto-truck accident, the defendants being the owners of the truck, the driver their duly authorized agent, and the plaintiff an occupant under circumstances that made him a nonpaying guest. While being driven at a rate of speed ivliich the trial court, sitting without a jury, held, upon sufficient evidence, to have been excessive and unreasonable, the truck, when it reached a sharp turn in the road, went off at a tangent and crashed into a large tree which stood four feet outside the edge of the road. The truck was considerably…