Toole v. Morris-Webb Motor Co.

McCALEB, Judge.

The plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Toole, originally instituted this suit against Paul E. Bums of Biloxi, Mississippi, and Morris-Webb Motor Company, Inc., of Gulfport, Mississippi, claiming $11,234 damages for the negligent killing of their minor son by an automobile operated by the defendant' Burns. By supplemental and amended petition, the suit against Morris-Webb Motor Company, Inc., was abandoned and Blankenship Motors, Inc., of New Orleans, Louisiana, was instituted as co-defendant.

Plaintiffs allege that, on May 30, 1936, their minor son, Bernard Toole, was seated on…