Diederichs v. Duke

These cases involve the same accident, were tried together in the court below, heard together here on a single record and will be disposed of in one opinion. Plaintiff Mabel Diederichs owned a Ford coupé which she drove daily from her home in Warren-dale subdivision to her place of employment, a distance of about nine miles. Edwin Wingar was a neighbor of hers. On January 5, 1924, in the early morning he was riding with Mrs. Diederichs to his place of employment. They were driving on Warren avenue. Defendants Duke and McCracken did business as Duke Cartage Company and defendant Tacia was one…