Thompson v. Ashba

This was an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by appellee. The essential facts in the case, as supported by evidence most favorable to the appellee, are as follows:

The appellant was operating an automobile east on East Jackson Street in the residential section of the city of Sullivan, Indiana, at a speed of “about 40 to 45 miles per hour.” There were two trucks parked on the south side of the street at the point of collision. The appellee, a child three years of .age, “hurried” from between said trucks on the south side of said street, across said street toward the north side…