Chandler v. Owens

GARDNER, Justice.

Plaintiff was a guest passenger in an automobile driven by one Dryden when it collided with a Ford coupé or cabriolet, operated by one Fred Banks, a colored bpy in defendants’ employ at their mercantile establishment at Heflin, Ala., and brings this suit for recovery of the damages therein sustained.

Upon conclusion of the evidence ’the trial court gave for defendants the affirmative charge, duly requested, and defendants’ argument concerning this action of the court appears to be based upon the theory this was all that was done in this regard. But the trial court did more…