Gardner v. Welk

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

This was an action for damages for personal injuries arising out of a collision between defendant’s automobile and the plaintiff’s bicycle. The plaintiff was a six-year-old boy, and the action was brought by his mother as natural guardian and next friend.

Judgment was for plaintiff, and defendant has appealed.

Highly summarized, the facts are substantially as follow;

At about six o’clock in the evening on July 8, 1961, the defendant, age seventy-two, was driving his car in a westerly direction on a street in the city of Pratt. It was a through…