Reid v. Messer

Reid appealed from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding Messer damages arising out of an automobile collision for the death of his wife and serious personal injuries to himself.

The declaration alleges that about 11:00 o’clock p.m. on March 25, 1946, the defendant Reid loaned an automobile then in Ms custody to one Kaisi who at said time and place was not in a normal and reasonable mental condition, or was intoxicated and because of that condition was an unfit person to drive an automobile”; that said Beid “knew or in the exercise of ordinary care should have known that said Bobert…