Russell v. Williams

Tom Williams, plaintiff in the court below, brought suit against the appellant, E.E. Russell, and one Rawls, for a personal injury received by appellee in a collision between a truck owned by E.E. Russell, and being driven by Mr. Bernard Carpenter, an employee of E.E. Russell, upon which plaintiff (appellee here) was riding on the running board.

There was a judgment against E.E. Russell for two thousand dollars, and a judgment in favor of Rawls, in the court below.

On the day of the injury, the truck driven by Mr. Carpenter was filled with laborers riding to their work on a viaduct being…