Alves ex rel. Alves v. Jones

NEARN, Judge.

Starlet Jean Alves, while attempting to cross the street to board a school bus, was struck and seriously injured by a 1972 pickup truck being driven by Donald Jones and owned by his father Grady L. Jones. Gilbert Alves, the father of Starlet Jean Alves, as her next friend and in his individual right, filed suit against the Jones’. The case went to the jury which returned a verdict in favor of Starlet Jean Alves in the amount of $25,000 and in favor of her father in the amount of $5,000.

The defendants appeal with eight Assignments of Error.

The first and second Assignments of Error…