Blount County v. Perry

The plaintiff below, W. W. Perry, brought this suit to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision between a passenger bus in which he was riding and a truck which belonged to Blount county and was being driven by A. E. Stewart. The suit was instituted against Blount county, A. E. Stewart, and R. C. Bales and W. A. Learn, a partnership doing business under the name of Bales & Learn. A demurrer was sustained as to Blount county and it went out of the litigation.

At the trial before the court and a jury, peremptory instructions were granted as to A. E. Stewart. The case…