Ward v. City Fuel Oil Company, Inc.

A writ of error was taken to review a judgment for the defendant rendered upon a directed verdict in an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff as the result of a collision on a public highway of the horse the plaintiff was riding and the defendant’s oil delivery truck.

The plaintiff alleged, by his declaration, that the defendant’s servant, one Henry Thomas, “drove and operated said motor vehicle of the defendant in a grossly careless and negligent manner, and that by reason of such carelessness and negligence on the part of the agent and servant of the…