Rentschler v. Hall

The appellee, in an action brought by his father and next friend, recovered a judgment against the appellant for damages on account of personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

From the evidence most favorable to the appellee it could be found or logically inferred that he, a boy about seven years and six months of age, was walking east on the north edge of a hard top county road on the afternoon of a clear, bright day. The appellant, overtaking him in an automobile, sounded the horn when about 200 feet away. He looked back and the appellant tried to apply the brakes which…