Reid v. Owens

EVAN'S, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict in favor of the defendant W. F. Owens, and involves the question as to the effect to be given to certain extrajudicial admissions relied upon by appellants to establish his liability.

The plaintiffs sued to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of their father, Clair G. Reid, who was struck and killed by an automobile owned by the defendant W. F. Owens, but which, at the time of the accident, was being driven by the defendant George Owens, his seventeen year old son. It is alleged, and at the…