Harned v. Tippett

Mr. Presiding Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court.

Margaret Harned, plaintiff appellee, brought suit in the city court of East St. Louis agianst William Tippett, defendant appellant, charging in two counts that while she was riding as a guest in the said appellant’s automobile he was guilty of wanton and wilful misconduct which resulted in serious bodily injury to her. The complaint charges among other things that the appellant deliberately, wilfully and wantonly drove his automobile at a high rate of speed, to wit, the speed of 60 miles an hour, without exercising any regard for…