Baker v. Thompson

Effie Baker brought suit in the circuit court of Henry county asking damages of Harold Thompson as a result of his allegedly negligent operation of his automobile whereby plaintiff was seriously injured on the night of March 28, 1944. The complaint filed charged that the defendant was guilty of common law negligence; that he violated the statute which commands a driver of a vehicle approaching a pedestrian upon a roadway to give warning by sounding the horn and to exercise proper caution; that he violated the statute which provides that an operator of a vehicle shall do so at a speed that is…