Northcott v. Holloway

OPINION

DYER, Chief Justice.

This case comes to this Court from the action of the trial judge sustaining a plea in abatement and dismissing the action. In this opinion James Edgar Northcott and wife, Leila Ruth Northcott, will be referred to as plaintiffs, and Jess Calvin Holloway, Elmer L. Cochran, Jr., Elmer L. Cochran, Sr., individually and dba Cochran Trucking, Inc., Ideal Baking Company, Inc. and Ideal Distributing Company, as defendants.

On August 23, 1969, plaintiffs, residents of Madison County, Tennessee, suffered injuries and damages in a vehicle collision on the highways of Madison…