Lawson v. Mason & Dixon Lines, Inc.

Charles Otis Lawson brought suit by next friend to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him when the automobile in which he was riding was in collision with a tractor-trailer owned by the defendant, Mason-Dixon Lines, Inc., and driven by its employee, the defendant, Ted Jones. His father, the plaintiff Marshall Lawson, filed a companion suit seeking to recover the cost of the medical treatment provided his son, and to recover for the loss of his son’s services. The two cases were tried together and resulted in jury verdicts in favor of the plaintiffs — Charles Lawson being…