Greenwood v. Vanarsdall

RUARK, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting a new trial after plaintiff’s verdict.

Plaintiff’s cause of action was based upon the proposition that the defendant drove at a high and dangerous rate of speed at night, down a hill, and around a curve, thereby causing the defendant's car to go over and into the ditch at the side of the road; that people congregated at such location; that this created a hazardous situation; that later the car in which plaintiff was riding came along; that the driver of plaintiff’s car, in order to avoid striking people gathered on the road, ran…