Dermer v. Pistoresi

MR. JUSTICE THOMPSON (R. L.) Delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered upon a verdict of $3,500 secured as damages on account of the death of plaintiff’s son, which resulted from an automobile casualty while the boy was riding in the machine as a guest.

On November 25, 1928, at 7 o’clock P. M., Simon Dermer, Jr., the son of plaintiff, aged nineteen years, was riding as a guest with the defendant August Pistoresi along the highway near Madera, in the Chevrolet automobile belonging to the defendant Creuffe Pistoresi. The machine was running at the rate of…