Motors Insurance Corp. v. Jackson

STANLEY, Commissioner.

This is an action on a contract sounding in tort. The appellee, John Jackson, sued Motors Insurance Corporation, Howard Chevrolet Company and General Motors Acceptance Corporation to recover damages for the loss of a truck and of earnings as a consequence of being deprived of its use. The Howard Company and G. M. A. C. were let out on a peremptory instruction. A verdict for $2,500 was returned against the insurance company, and it has appealed.

Jackson and his wife, Lelia, were engaged in the business of making and hauling mine cap boards. He was 87 years old, illiterate…