Garner v. Maxwell

This cause involves an appeal in error by Arnold Garner, Percy Wells, Bobby Maness and Eobert Wamble, who had been sued in the lower court as partners or joint adventurers d/b/a Wamble Trucking Company, and against whom a jury-had returned a verdict of $21,400, of which $21,000 was for compensatory damages, and $400.00 for punitive damages. This verdict was approved by the trial judge and judgment entered accordingly.

The suit grew out of an accident which occurred on Tennessee State Highway 20 at a point about 8 miles northwest of Jackson, Tennessee. It happened at about 12:30 o ’clock A. M.,…