Whitworth v. Riley

TEEHEE, C.

By verdict of the jury, the defendant in error, Fred L. Riley, herein designated as plaintiff, secured a judgment of $300 against the plaintiff in error, O. B. Whitworth, defendant below, as damages resultant of a collision of plaintiff’s automobile with that of defendant.

In his petition plaintiff alleged in substance as his cause of action that, with his wife, mother, and a friend, he was driving a Ford coupe on a public highway at a moderate speed about ten o’clock at night. He saw the headlights of defendant’s car ahead of him, and, it being nighttime, the same had the appearance…