Columbian Fuel Corp. v. Summers

JACKSON, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in. the District Court of Moore County by the appellees who are the surviving widow, the mother and the children of J. W. Summers, deceased, against the defendants, Cienon C. Hemsell and the Columbian Fuel Corporation, to recover actual damages in the sum of $67,500 and exemplary damages in. the sum of $50,000 for the death of J. W. Summers which is alleged to have been occasioned by the actual and gross negligence of defendants.

Several different acts of negligence are-charged in appellees’ petition against the defendants but since the…