Hopkins v. Golden

Bushnell, J;

Plaintiff’s action for damages, because of the claimed negligent operation by defendant of his car in which she was riding, resulted in the jury’s verdict in her favor of $895. Decision on defendant ’s motion for a directed verdict having been reserved, the court denied the same, together with a motion for judgment non obstante veredicto, and defendant appeals.

Prior to the accident out of which this action arose, plaintiff Julia C. Hopkins, her husband, Thomas T. Hopkins and Fanny Boots, a lodger in their home, wanted to go to the smelt run at Beulah, Michigan. The Hopkins car was…