Randolph v. Kessler

LIVINGSTON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, in amount of $1900, for personal injuries in a case tried to a jury in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Alabama. It was tried on a single count alleging willful or wanton misconduct of the defendant and was brought under the Alabama guest statute, Title 36, Sec. 95, Code of 1940, Recompiled 1958.

The question raised by the assignments of error, and argued in brief, are: the excessiveness of the damages, admission of some allegedly hearsay testimony, the correctness of the trial judge’s action in refusing to…