family history I never knew

I was sorting through even more pictures today and came across a box of very old pictures of my husband's family.  These pictures seem to date back to the 1920's or earlier.  Among the pictures were some newspaper clippings (mostly cut out without any date). These are typical notices of funerals, weddings, visits to their home towns, the usual.  However, in among them I found a small notice that my mother-in-law and father-in-law had been involved in an auto accident in their roadster and Helen (who was 33 at the time, so two years before my husband was born) ended up in the hospital with some broken bones. The first article quoted the driver of the other car as saying that they ran into the back of his car.  However a later clipping said that they were suing him for $5,000.00 because of her injuries. $5,000.00 was a good amount of money in 1931.  Unfortunately there was no more follow up information.  Did they win the lawsuit?? Sadly, there is no one left on that side of the family to ask.