Webb v. Stone

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Around 2:15' a. m. on a March morning in 1965 an automobile being driven by Charles Kennedy, with John W. Stone as a passenger, left the highway, struck two trees and a pole, and was demolished. Kennedy and Stone both were killed. Stone’s administrator sued Kennedy’s ad-ministratrix for damages. The evidence for the plaintiff showed that the automobile was being operated at an extremely high speed just before the accident, and it was enough to make out a case of negligence on the part of Kennedy. At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the defendant attempted to…