Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 18 | Court Sustains Verdict for Guest Hurt on Auto Ride

COURT SUSTAINS VERDICT FOR GUEST i HURT ON AUTO RIDE I NEW XE YORK lf May lay 25 Ir G.-Ir If you take a friend to ride in your automobile an and au an accident occurs and he gets sets hurt he lie can get a verdict verdic against you for damages Such a decision of or Importance importance im to motorists was reached by bythe bythe II the tile appellate appella e division o of the Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn supreme court Owners of oC automobiles automobiles auto auto- mobiles said it would discourage their hospitality The plaintiff was Mrs Sidney Sidne V. V Lowell whose husband was formerly corporation counsel of oC Brooklyn She was a guest in the automobile of oC Mrs Harriet Williams of at Columbia Heights when lien it collided with a motor truck on the Jericho turnpike Mrs Lowell was thrown through the windshield She Sho sued her hostess in Nassau county count and got a verdict for Mrs Williams took an appeal I which was largely based on the fact that Mrs Lowell was riding In the lie car carIS caras caras as IS her guest