CITY OF EVANSVILLE v. Lehman

This appeal comes to us from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict in the Pike Circuit Court, with the Honorable Lester Nixon, the regular judge thereof, presiding. *590The case had been venued to that court from Vanderburgh County. The issues in the trial court were formed by the complaint and amended answer in two paragraphs filed by appellant Whirlpool Corporation; the first under Rule 1-3, and the second in which it was alleged that appellee (plaintiff below) was negligent in the operation of the motor vehicle under his command; that he was guilty of contributory negligence ; and that said…