Eagle-Picher Mining & Smelting Co. v. Drinkwine

This is an appeal from a judgment allowing recovery for injuries sustained in an automobile collision. The question for decision is whether the court submitted the issues to the jury under proper instructions.

On October 2, 1940, at approximately noon, the car in which plaintiff, Grace Drinkwine, was riding as a guest was proceeding in a westerly direction on U. S. Highway 69, near Picher, Okla. The driver thereof, Claude Drinkwine, desiring to enter a filling station on the opposite or south side of the road, turned left across the center line of the highway at a point where there was no…