James v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Joanne James, plaintiff-appellant, instituted this suit on behalf of her four and one-half year old minor son, Robert Lee James, who was seriously injured in an automobile-pedestrian accident. The matter was tried before a jury which returned a verdict finding the defendant-driver, Kenneth L. Dupont, free of negligence and *393rendered a judgment against the plaintiff who now perfects this appeal. The majority today affirms the judgment below holding that it is unable to find manifest error in the refusal of the trial court to give plaintiff’s Special Charge Number 1 and that, in any event, the…