Strickland v. Davis

The action is to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from an automobile collision.

Count A of the complaint, on which the trial was had, alleges that while plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile being driven on a .public highway at a time and place specified, the defendant negligently “ran an automobile against the said automobile in which plaintiff was such passenger, and as a proximate result of said negligence” plaintiff received the injuries described.

These averments disclose the duty of care by one motorist toward another in the rightful use of a public highway. This being…