Clise v. Prunty

Maxwell, Judge:

Defendant prosecutes this writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Marion County predicated on a verdict for $8,000 against him and in favor of the plaintiff.

The plaintiff, her husband and their nephew, then ten years of age, were guests in the defendant’s automobile. The party was en route on Christmas, 1927, from the town of Everson to the city of Keyser, both in the state of West Virginia. From Everson they proceeded in a northerly direction into the state of Pennsylvania, thence eastwardly on the National Pike, expecting to re-enter West Virginia before reaching…