Patterson v. Aitken

This is an action brought by defendant in error Willie Lee Patterson to recover damages for personal injuries he claimed to have sustained when Robert Aitken, Jr., the son of plaintiff in error Robert Aitken drove an automobile against him as he was alighting from a street car in the city of East St. Louis on April 27, 1925. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant in error in the sum of $2,500. The facts in proof showed plainly without contradiction that defendant in error was injured by the negligence of the son of plaintiff in error in driving the car of the latter. The grounds urged…