Le Sage v. Smith

Mrs. Hettie Smith, appellee here, was the wife of M. D. Smith, now deceased, and was riding in the family auto with her said husband and their two minor daughters, Betty and Prudence, going from the South Bend neighborhood in an easterly direction toward the City of Graham, in which city the family lived, and the trip was being made in the late morning of June 12th, 1936, when an automobile driven by Roy Wheat, an employee of R. S. LeSage, traveling in the same direction, ran into the rear of the Smith car and knocked it into the ditch on the side of the road, damaging the car and inflicting…