Hosford ex rel. Hosford v. Clark ex rel. Jones

STONE, Judge.

Juvenile jollity and giddy gaiety were, in the twinkling of an eye, translated and transformed into mischievous misadventure and miserable misfortune when, on a country road near Portageville, Missouri, about 11:00 P.M. on Saturday, September 19, 1959, plaintiff, Inez Hosford, then fourteen years of age, fell or was thrown from the right front fender of a 1957 Oldsmobile sedan being driven by defendant, Larry Clark, then seventeen years of age. Damages were denied by a nine-man jury verdict for defendant; and, on this appeal from the judgment entered on the verdict, the only…