Reilley v. Byard

CalhouN, Judge.

This ease involves an action of trespass on the case instituted in the Circuit Court of Marshall County by Paul E. Eeilley against Howard Lee Byard and Walter Humphrey, in which the plaintiff alleges that he sustained personal injury and property damage as a consequence of an automobile accident caused by the concurrent negligence of the two defendants.

A default judgment was taken against Walter Humphrey and thereafter the case proceeded to trial before a jury against the other defendant, Howard Lee Byard. At the conclusion of the plaintiff’s case, the court, on motion of the…