Combs v. Stewart

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dawson

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding Fifteen Hundred Dollars to the appellee, Boyd Stewart. On the filing of motion and grounds for new trial the appellee filed a remittitur of Five Hundred Dollars, leaving the judgment in the amount of One Thousand Dollars.

The facts are, as appear from the record, that about seven o’clock on October 18, 1939, the appellee Stewart and a friend, Jack Fields, were driving a Ford automobile eastwardly along State Highway No. 80, in the town of Combs. They had just driven on to the highway from a side road but…