Baston v. Shelton

CHAPMAN, J.:

The plaintiff below, Peggy Shelton, about 3:00 A.M. on June 20, 1940, when walking from the west to the east across the intersection of 18th Street and Northwest 7th Avenue in the City of Miami, was struck by a Dodge truck driven by Lamar Carroll, 18 years of age, an employee of the defendant engaged in the delivery of milk. Plaintiff’s declaration consisted of four counts, and alleged that the proximate cause of her injuries, being both serious and permanent, was the carelessness and negligence of defendant’s employee in the operation of the milk truck at the time and place…