Swift & Co. v. Phelps

On the joint trial of these cases in the District Court, the jury returned verdicts for appellees and against appellant for damages resulting from an automobile-truck collision near Chatsworth, Georgia. The sole question presented here is whether the District Court committed reversible error in overruling appellant’s motions for directed verdicts and motions for judgments notwithstanding the verdicts.

As a result of the collision from which the actions arose, David L. Phelps and his wife, Doris Watson Phelps, lost their lives, and Nancy Phelps, their sixteen-year-old daughter, was injured.…