Utility Trailer Works v. Phillips

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a suit by Eugene B. Phillips against Utility Trailer Works, a corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained as a result of a collision of a motorcycle, on which Phillips was riding as a passenger, and a truck owned and operated by the defendant corporation.

Insofar as the pleadings are concerned, the case was submitted to the jury upon two counts of the complaint charging simple negligence and defendant’s plea of the general issue in short by consent in the usual form.

There were verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Defendant filed motion for new trial,…