Nashville Gas & Heating Co. v. Phillips

This is an appeal in the nature of a writ of error by the Nashville Gas & Heating Company, defendant below and hereinafter called defendant, from a judgment for $8,000 and costs against it and in favor of Grady Phillips, plaintiff below and hereinafter called plaintiff.

In the circuit court the plaintiff sued for $20,000 as damages for personal injuries suffered by him as the result of alleged negligence of the defendant.

It is averred in plaintiff’s declaration (filed July 29, 1931) that the defendant is, and was on January 15, 1927, a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of…