Avent v. Tucker

In an action at law for damages, Mrs. E. O. Tucker and her two minor children, John and Ernest Tucker, as heirs at law, recovered a judgment against the appellants, Fisher Avent and Mrs. Fisher Avent, in the sum of $25,000, for which judgment was entered on the verdict of a jury by the lower court, and the Avents appeal to this court.

In substance the declaration charged that the appellee intestate came to his death while driving on Highway 49E north from Greenwood toward Clarksdale; that his death was the result of a collision between the Ford Coach automobile, driven by Tucker, and the…