Poundstone v. Whitney

This case presents four separate actions for damages resulting from an automobile collision. The four actions were consolidated for trial and are so treated upon the appeal. Prior to the time of trial, defendant Claude Lynch defaulted. Thereafter, the court, trying the case without'a jury, made findings and conclusions, based upon which judgments were rendered for the respective plaintiffs against all the defendants. Later, the judgments were vacated as to the defendant Willard Westmoreland. The defendants Whitney and wife, only, have appealed from each of the judgments so entered.

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