Wardlow v. Newberry

COLLINGS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling a plea of privilege. Ethel Newberry, the surviving wife of Claude Newberry, and their children, filed suit against Dorse Wardlow, John Henry Weathersby and Nathaniel Dorsey in Jones County to recover $84,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiffs because of the wrongful death of the said Claude Newberry as a result of a collision by his car with the rear end of a truck on a highway in Jones County on December 19, 1956. Plaintiffs alleged that the truck was at the time of the collision owned by John Henry Weathersby,…