Courtesy Cab Co. v. Keck

This suit was brought by Elwanda Keck against C. B. McCarter, doing business as the Courtesy Cab' Company, in an effort to recover damages for personal injuries she sustained when the cab in which she was riding left the roadway and struck a power pole. Plaintiff also sought to recover punitive damages, charging that the driver of the cab was intoxicated at the time of the accident, and further that the defendant was *311guilty of gross negligence in entrusting the cab to a driver the defendant knew, or should have known, was an unsafe driver with a record of many traffic violations.

On trial, the…