Mathis v. Patrick

Jordan, Judge.

Ray Ervin Patrick by next friend filed suit against Joe Brown Mathis to recover damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained by the plaintiff in a collision between a farm tractor operated by the plaintiff and the defendant’s automobile. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and the exception is to the denial of the defendant’s amended motion for new trial. Held:

1. Special ground 1 assigns error on the failure of the court to charge the jury “on the use of the mortality tables introduced *377by plaintiff without objection for the purpose of showing the life expectancy…