Nelms v. Boswell

This suit was instituted by Mrs. Mary Nelms, surviving widow of Jerry L. Nelms, deceased, individually and as natural tutrix of her minor children, viz., Zella Nelms, Ella Nelms, Burland Nelms, and Mabry Nelms, issue of her marriage to deceased, and by Edgar Nelms and Mrs. Bessie Honeycutt, wife of Leo Honeycutt, major heirs and children of deceased and his said widow, against Grover C. Boswell, to recover the sum of $15,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by them on account of the killing of their said husband and father by defendant’s automobile, December 5, 1929, while negligently…