Davis v. Baker

Action of negligence to recover compensation for personal injuries and property damage. In the trial court at the close of the evidence, on motion, the jury were instructed to return a verdict for the defendant. An exception to this ruling brings the case forward for review.

In the afternoon of October 7,1939, the plaintiff, while riding along Baxter Boulevard in Portland, without warning turned her automobile to the left and attempted to drive it across and into an intersecting road. At this time the defendant’s automobile was approaching from .the opposite direction undoubtedly in plain…