Tuohey v. Martinjak

The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered when the automobile in which she was riding as a guest, operated by one of the defendants and maintained by the other as a family car, ran into a telegraph pole at the side of the highway. The complaint alleged that the defendant driver, diverting her attention to some vases containing flowers which were in the car and tipping over or in danger of doing so, neglected the operation of the car with the result that it proceeded along the highway without guidance until it struck the pole, and that the defendant…