Sanders v. H & S Motor Freight, Inc.

RENDLEN, Judge.

H & S Motor Freight, Inc., defendant below, appeals the $150,000 judgment entered on a verdict for injuries to plaintiff Ray Sanders. His wife Betty Sanders received a verdict of $30,000 for loss of consortium but filed a voluntary remittitur reducing her award to $17,500 and no appeal is taken from that judgment. The action arose from a two-truck accident, one driven by plaintiff Ray Sanders and the other by defendant’s employee Claude Hayes.

We consider three assignments of error: (1) the trial court erred in sustaining plaintiff’s objection to defendant’s introduction of a…