Seals v. Sharp

Action to recover for personal injuries and property damage sustained when an automobile owned and driven by plaintiff Sharp collided with a truck driven by defendant Seals while hauling lumber for the truck owner, the defendant Hatfield Lumber Company, a partnership of which Seals was a member. The appeal is from the court’s action approving a jury verdict for $2,400 in favor of the plaintiff.

We are urged with much zeal and ability to reverse because, it is said, defendants were denied a fair trial by the purposeful interjection of incompetent and highly prejudicial evidence tending to show…