Chattanooga Ice Delivery Co. v. George F. Burnett Co.

George F. Burnett Company, Incorporated, instituted this suit in the circuit court of Hamilton County against Chattanooga Ice Delivery Company, seeking damages for injury to automobiles involved in a collision with a truck of defendant company. Defendant entered a general denial of liability and also set up special defenses of contributory negligence on the part of plaintiff. Upon the trial of the cause the jury returned a verdict for the sum of $700, but no motion for new trial suggestion of remittitur was accepted and the recovery reduced to the sum of $646. Motion for new trial was in all…