Leslie Four Coal Co. v. Simpson Ex Rel. Simpson

STEWART, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of $5,500 awarded, without the intervention of a jury, to Robert Simpson, a seventeen-year-old infant. The judgment was the outgrowth of a suit in behalf of the latter instituted by his mother, Mrs. A. M. Simpson, as his next friend, against Leslie Four Coal Company for damages, it being averred in the complaint the company’s negligence caused the youth to lose his left hand. In this appeal a reversal is urged on the ground that at the conclusion of all the evidence Leslie Four Coal Company was entitled to a directed verdict.

On October 18,…