Kilmain v. D'Urbano

We think there was evidence for the jury of gross negligence of the defendant.

The jury could have found that while the minor plaintiff, a boy of sixteen and a guest passenger in. an automobile driven by the defendant, was riding upon the running board with the defendant’s knowledge and consent, the defendant drove down grade at a speed of from forty to forty-five miles an hour upon a narrow street up which groups of children were approaching, disregarded the minor plaintiff’s request to “slow down,” made at a point about one hundred fifty feet from the place of the accident, and another…