Mize v. Skeen

Jack Howard Mize, a minor suing by his mother as next friend, seeks damages for personal injuries from Phillip Eay Skeen sustained in a collision of plaintiff’s motor bike and defendant’s car. By separate suit Jack Hamilton Mize, father of the minor, sues for loss of services and medical expenses.

Below these cases were tried twice. Plaintiffs have perfected appeals and brought to this Court bills of exceptions of both trials.

As required, we will examine first the record of the first trial in which plaintiffs insist the trial judge erred in granting a new trial. Howell v. Johnson, 42 Tenn.App.…