Godsey v. Tucker

Charles Clyde Tucker, administrator of his wife Ruth Campbell Tucker, plaintiff, brought this suit against H. Phillips Godsey, defendant, for damages for the wrongful death of Mrs. Tucker caused by a collision between the automobile driven by Godsey and the automobile driven by Tucker in which Mrs. Tucker was a passenger. The jury returned a verdict for $10,000 in favor of the plaintiff as administrator, without direction as to whom it should be paid. Under the circumstances later to be related the verdict was amended by the court to provide that it should be paid “to Charles Clyde Tucker,…