Martin v. Tipton

MOREMEN, Justice.

These two actions arose from an accident in which Thomas J. Martin, Jr. was killed and Billy J. Hughes was injured. The collision occurred between a car operated by Thomas Martin, Jr. — in which Billy J. Hughes was a passenger — and a truck owned by appellee, W. H. Tipton, and operated by his agent. The actions were tried together and, upon agreed order, have been heard and tried together in this court.

The question presented for determination on this appeal concerns whether or not certain incidents, which occurred when the jury viewed the scene of the accident, were…