Phillips Co-Operative Gin Co. v. Goshen

Ed. F. McFaddin, Associate Justice.

The question is, whether a case was made for the jury. The Trial Court gave an instructed verdict for the plaintiff on the issue of liability, and the defendant has appealed.

The plaintiff, Dewey Goshen, was riding as a passenger in an automobile driven by Richard F. Toll, Sr. on September 27, 1955. There was a collision between the Toll automobile and a truck-trailer driven by W T. Jackson; and Goshen was injured. He sued both Jackson and the Phillips Co-operative Gin Company1 for damages, alleging that Jackson was, at the time and place of the accident, the…