SCHUMPERT v. Watson

Mrs. Ora Schumpert and John W. Schumpert filed their separate suits against George Watson in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Mississippi, and by agree ment the cases were consolidated and tried as one suit. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and from the judgment entered in the lower court, the plaintiffs there appealed to this Court.

On the 20th day of June 1959, Mr. John W. Schumpert was driving his Cadillac automobile in an easterly direction on Highway 90 about one and one-half miles east of Pascagoula, Mississippi. He had his wife, Mrs. Ora Schumpert, and two children in…