Porter v. Jacksonville Electric Co.

The plaintiff in error brought an action *410to recover damages for injuries received in a collision on a public highway between an automobile in which she was riding as a passenger and a street car of the defendant company. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and also several special pleas averring in effect that neither the automobile nor the chauffeur was registered as required by the statute; that defendant did not discover the peril of the plaintiff until it was too late for defendant to avoid the accident by the exercise of ordinary and reasonable diligence; and that the operator of the…