Robinson v. Ashner

STEAKLEY, Justice.

A pickup truck driven by Ered W. Ash-ner, Jr., in which his seventy-five-year-old father, Fred W. Ashner, Sr., was riding, collided with a dump truck driven by Floyd K. Robinson, an employee of Pete Koontz and Don Jacobs, the owners of the truck. Ashner, Jr., and Ashner, Sr., filed separate suits against Robinson, Koontz and Jacobs to recover damages for their personal injuries, and, in Junior’s suit for damages to his pickup. No motion was filed to consolidate the suits. Junior’s suit was first tried and he lost, the jury finding both Junior and Robinson guilty of negligent…