Wood v. Johnson

This is an appeal by William M. Wood, one of the defendants, from the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, Gilbert Johnson, and exonerating another defendant, Norman R. Huffman. The court directed a verdict in favor of a third defendant, Reaver Huffman, owner of the Huffman car, on the basis of lack of evidence to establish agency, from which there was no appeal. The action grew out of an automobile collision caused by the car operated by the defendant, Wood, running into the rear of a disabled car operated by the defendant, Norman R. Huffman. The plaintiff, who was a passenger in the…