Williams v. Withington

Citations

• 88 Kan. 809
• 129 P. 1148
• 1913 Kan. LEXIS 425

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Negligence—Automobile — Husband Driving Buggy—Imputed Negligence. A woman who with a child in her lap goes riding about nine o’clock at night in a single seated buggy drawn by a gentle horse driven by her husband, and who does not exercise or attempt to exercise any control over the ve hide or the driver, is not chargeable with the negligence ,of the husband in failing to see and avoid an automobile approaching from the side on which the husband is sitting.</p> <p>2. Special Questions—Prolixity and Confusion to be Avoided. Special questions are not for the purpose of subjecting the jury to a process of technical and microscopic cross-examination, or of requiring them to distinguish between elements of injury beyond the ken of the anatomist and the metaphysician, but to show the chief ultimate facts.</p>