Wade v. Roberts

Error is assigned in the first special ground of the amended motion for new trial on the use of the word “solely” in the following excerpt from the charge: “A. D. Wade . . . alleges that the defendant, Lonnie Roberts, is indebted to him in the sum of $25,000 by reason of the allegations which he sets forth in his petition, which are briefly and substantially that.... there was a collision of the car in which the plaintiff was riding with the defendant’s son with an automobile on that road and that the collision was proximately and solely caused by the gross negligence of the defendant’s son,…