Gaskill v. Calaveras Cement Co.

This is an appeal by Pat L. Nolet, W. W. Miles, and K. D. Anderson, copartners doing business as Motor Transport System (hereinafter referred to as M.T.S.), from a judgment entered against M.T.S. and others upon a verdict of a jury in favor of plaintiffs, which judgment awarded said plaintiffs damages in the sum of $18,000 for the death of Effie Mae Gaskill, the wife of Frank Gaskill and mother of the other plaintiffs. Mrs. Gaskill’s death resulted from an automobile accident for which defendants LeBrun and Swain admitted responsibility.

The evidence shows that a tractor owned by Swain and…