Smith v. Roueche

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff received personal injuries when the automobile in which she was riding as a guest passenger of defendant, who owned, and was at the time operating, the car, “skidded” across the road, crashed through the wooden rail of a bridge, and fell to the ground some ten or twelve feet below.

Charging that the accident resulted from defendant’s negligent operation of the car, plaintiff seeks to hold him liable and to recover from him the sum of $25,000. She charges that at the time of the accident the speed of the automobile was “in excess of fifty miles an hour,” and that “it…