Cotterly v. Muirhead

HALL, Chief Justice.

This personal injury suit was filed by ap-pellee T. A. Muirhead against appellant E. F. Cotterly, and his son Gerald, alleging that Gerald Cotterly, the minor son of appellant, unlawfully drove appellant’s jeep automoble into the car in which his wife Mamie was riding, thereby personally injuring her.

The jury, by their answers to issues submitted to them, convicted appellant’s son of various acts of negligence, which it found each to be a proximate cause of the injury. The trial court entered judgment for appellee and against both defendants in the sum of $1700, in…