Teele v. Gravlee

MERRILL, Justice.

Plaintiff, Mrs. C. E. Teele, sued her neighbor, Mrs. Joyce Gravlee, claiming damages for personal injuries when defendant’s Pontiac Tempest ran into plaintiff’s house trailer. The verdict was for defendant and plaintiff’s motion for new trial was overruled.

Plaintiff and defendant lived in adjoining house trailers and plaintiff’s trailer was slightly downhill and fifty feet from defendant’s. On July 21, 1973, defendant drove up in front of her trailer, stopped the car, turned off the motor, pulled up the emergency brake and got out of the car. Her nine-year-old daughter was…