Trotter v. Staggers

Appellants and appellees are both partnerships. Hereafter we will refer to appellants as Thompson and appellees as Staggers. Staggers sued Thompson for damages to his truck caused by the alleged negligence of Thompson. The jury returned a verdict for Staggers for $213.79. .

Thompson requested, and was refused, a peremptory instruction. He says that was reversible error. This accident happened within and on the south side of Main Street in Columbus, Mississippi. The time was about six to six-thirty o’clock on the morning of February 5, 1915. It was yet dark and rain was falling. Staggers owns…