Ritter v. Dexter

This is a companion case of McBride v. Dexter, 250 Iowa 7, 92 N.W.2d 443, which was an action for damages for injuries suffered by John McBride, an occupant of a Mercury automobile, owned -by George E. Dexter, Sr., and with his consent driven by his son, George B. Dexter, Jr., on the evening of November 26, 1955, when it ran off the pavement at a curve and was wrecked. The driver, Dexter, Jr. was fatally injured and the four other boys who were riding in the ear suffered serious injuries. One of them was John McBride. Another was James Ritter, then age seventeen years, who subsequently…