Gassaway Const. Co. v. Gentry

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment entered in these consolidated actions upon a jury’s verdict awarding appellees, M. L. Gentry, $6,000, and his wife, Artie B. Gentry, $3,500. The judgment must be reversed, and the award made to each appellee set aside, because the court erroneously instructed the jury concerning the damages recoverable by appellees from the appellants.

The actions arose out of a collision which occurred on June 21, 1952, when the truck owned by the appellant, Gassaway Construction Company, being driven by its servant and co-appellant, J. E. Runyon, collided…