Adcox v. American Home Assurance Co.

Moss, Chief Justice.

On August 9, 1968, Terry Sylvester Adcox, a respondent herein, operating a motor vehicle owned by his mother, and Carl D. Stephens, operating his own motor vehicle, were involved in an automobile accident with a third motor vehicle owned by the respondent, Alfred L. Son, and operated by the respondent, Jackie Walden Son. At the time of the accident, respondents Alfred L. Son and Martha Freeman were riding as passengers in the vehicle operated by Jackie W. Son. The three occupants in the Son automobile filed suit against Adcox and Stephens as joint tortfeasors and at trial…