Keehn v. Braubach

Mr. Justice John J. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiff $87,500 damages for injuries resulting from an automobile accident.

The declaration consists of three counts. The first alleges:

“1. That at about one o’clock on the morning of July 13, 1935, at a place about seven miles west of the town of Spearfish in the State of South Dakota, on a public highway which ran in a general easterly and westerly direction and was known as U. S. Number 14, plaintiff was injured through the gross negligence and wilful and…