Fletcher, Adm'r v. Horn

This is an action for wrongful death by Ishmael Fletcher, administrator of the estate of James Edward Burchett, deceased, against George W. Horn and Ernest Thompson, arising out of a collision between a sedan driven by Tommie Daniel, in which Burchett was a passenger, and an empty logging truck owned by Horn and driven by his employee, Thompson. After all of the evidence had been heard by a jury the trial court struck the plaintiff’s evidence on the ground that it failed to show that the death of the plaintiff’s decedent was proximately caused by the negligence of the defendants or either of…