Christie v. Mitchell
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County. Action by F. R. Christie, Administrator, against Oscar Mitchell. Yerdict for plaintiff, and from an order setting aside the verdict and granting a new trial, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MlLLER, PRESIDENT :
The circuit court set aside the verdict for plaintiff for $8,000.00, and awarded defendant a new trial. The action is for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, a boy twelve years of age, by the alleged wrongful act of defendant in running over him with a truck driven by his servant, in the City of Bluefield, in November 1921.
The material facts in the ease are substantially as follows: Defendant at the time of the accident owned and operated a number of trucks. One of these was driven by Kelly J. Collins, who was then engaged in hauling cement from the railroad to Bluefield…
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