Driver v. Smith

Tbe defendant, Clarence Driver, appeals in error from judgments rendered against him in favor of tbe. plaintiff below, Happel E. Smith, in tbe amount of $1,000 and in favor of Miss Geraldine Smith by next friend in tbe amount of $5,000.

On tbe night of August 12,1957, a Mercury automobile owned by tbe defendant, Clarence Driver, and being driven by a teen-ager, Bobby Joe Moore, ran into a ditch alongside tbe Humboldt-Medina blacktop road in Gibson County, Tennessee, a short distance from tbe city limits of tbe City of Humboldt. There were four young people, all minors, seated on tbe front seat…