Edwards v. Ford

Mrs. T. E. Edwards brought suit against A. N. Ford, to recover for the homicide of her daughter by the alleged gross negligence of the defendant’s stepdaughter in operating an automobile upon the public highway, the plaintiff’s daughter being at the time a guest of the driver of the car who,- it was alleged, was a member of the defendant’s family and using his car by his permission. It was alleged that she was less than sixteen years of age, of little experience in driving, and while operating the car at a dangerous and excessive speed of sixty to seventy miles an hour she took her eyes from…