Daniels v. Smith

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

When the concerned casualty occurred, plaintiff was a front seat passenger in a Dodge being operated by Donald Houston in a westerly direction on Seminole Street in Springfield, Missouri. Lee Payton, driving an Oldsmobile, and Carolyn Sue Dillinger, driving a Chevrolet, were traveling north on Glenstone Avenue when their automobiles successively collided with the Dodge at and north of the intersection of the two thoroughfares. Plaintiff initially sued the three drivers but, ere trial, settled with Payton for $10,000. The jury in the first trial exonerated Mrs. Dillinger…