Haley v. Byers Transportation Company

EAGER, Judge.

This is a second appeal. The opinion on the first appeal appears at 394 S.W.2d 412, and many of the facts are stated there. That appeal involved primarily a construction of the jury’s verdicts; the judgment for plaintiff on his petition was reversed and the cause remanded with directions. The present appeal involves specific claims of error during the same trial, after remand and the entry of a judgment for defendants. Plaintiff’s prayer for damages was for $500,000.

The case arose from separate, but related, collisions between plaintiff’s car and two tractor trailers. We shall…