Hale v. Rayburn

Referring to the parties as they appeared below, the plaintiff, Joe B. Rayburn, defendant-in-error here, admits that the pleadings are correctly stated in the defendant’s brief, as follows:

“This suit was brought in the Circuit Court of McMinn County by the plaintiff, as the father of Lilly Ruth Rayburn, age seventeen, to recover damages for her death, when she was struck, while crossing the highway, by an automobile driven by the defendant, Louie 0. Hale.

“The declaration alleges that the plaintiff’s daughter, Lilly Ruth Rayburn, was standing on the southeast side of Federal Highway No. 11, ‘a…