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- Title: Donna Mae Wood Veverka Et Al. v.
- Author : Supreme Court of Wisconsin
- Release Date : January 05, 1957
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Action by two plaintiffs to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from a collision involving an automobile in which plaintiff Donna Mae Wood Veverka was a guest. At the time of the accident she was an unmarried minor. She demands damages for her injuries. Plaintiff Tillie Marin is her mother. Her action is for hospital and doctor bills which she incurred in behalf of her child. The judgment dismissed plaintiffs' complaint. These facts are undisputed: On the evening of August 19, 1951, Kenneth L. Cross, aged about twenty-nine years, took Donna Mae, then about seventeen years of age, and her friend Mary Jane Hardee, of the same age, for a drive in his automobile in the Juneau Park area in the city of Milwaukee. While so engaged a group of motorcyclists took offense at his manner of driving, asserting that he had scraped the saddle bags on the motorcycle of Rice, one of the group, and had shined his spotlight into their eyes. There was in fact no spotlight on Cross' car. The cyclists surrounded Cross, stopped his progress, and addressed him in a profane and aggressive manner. Thinking he saw an opportunity to escape, Cross started his automobile suddenly and drove up Memorial Drive and north on Lake Drive at speeds up to 70 miles per hour followed by the men on motorcycles. At the intersection of Memorial Drive and Lake Drive, Cross halted for a stoplight. The cyclists came up on each side of his automobile and continued the argument. One of these men, defendant's witness Kunkel, testified that Cross didn't say anything but just drove off which antagonized the group still more. While Cross was at the stoplight he asked the girls to get out of his automobile but they refused to do so. When the light changed Cross resumed driving north on Lake Drive at his former high speed, with the cyclists in close pursuit, through the villages of Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. Kunkel testified that they intended to stop Cross, have a little argument with him and, if necessary, beat him up. That necessity disappeared when after a flight of several miles Cross failed to turn a corner safely, hit a utility pole and wrecked his car. An instant later his closest pursuer, Rice, ran into the Cross automobile.
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