Wiles v. Connor Coal & Wood Co.

In these two cases, tried together and brought forward by the defendant on identical exceptions, a minor, by his next friend, and his father, recovered verdicts in the Trial Court which represent jury findings on liability and jury estimates of the damage suffered by the minor, run over while attempting to cross a public highway by defendant’s truck driven by its agent, and by both the minor and his father in the past and future expense of his medical treatment.

The exceptions are to the admission over objection of the opinion evidence of two witnesses as to the speed of defendant’s motor…