Pankey v. Claywell

THEODORE McMILLIAN, Special Judge.

This is an action for damages arising out of personal injuries that plaintiff, a pedestrian, suffered when she was struck by defendant’s automobile. Verdict and judgment for $2,500.00 was for the plaintiff, and the defendant has appealed. We shall refer to the parties as they were designated in the trial court.

There is but one point raised upon the appeal; that is, that the plaintiff failed to make a submissible case under the humanitarian doctrine of negligent failure to slacken speed, or to swerve the automobile, or to sound a warning of its approach.

The…