Thomas v. Barnett

Carlisle, Presiding Judge.

This was a suit for damages impersonal injuries brought by Robert Gerald Barnett, a minor, by and through Comer L. Barnett, as next friend, against Mrs. Ellorie V. Smith, A. C. Smith, Roy Lee Thomas, Jr., and Roy Lee Thomas, Sr. After the defendants had filed their answers and demurrers and the demurrers had been overruled, the case came on for trial before the judge and a jury in the Superior Court of Forsyth County. At the conclusion of the evidence the *719jury returned a verdict against both defendants in the amount of $70,000. The defendants Thomas made a motion for…