Conner v. Hatcher

SMITH, Justice:

Separate actions for damages for personal injuries were begun in the Circuit Court of Harrison County by Appellants, Mrs. Catherine V. Conner, and her husband, Wendall P. Conner, against Appellees, Tony Neil Hatcher, a fifteen-year-old minor, and his parents, G. T. Hatcher and Mrs. Helen C. Hatcher.

It was alleged in both cases that plaintiffs, appellants here, had been severely and permanently injured when a Volkswagen, driven by Wendall P. Conner, and in which his wife, Mrs. Catherine V. Conner, was a passenger, had been run into from the rear by a Rambler automobile driven by…