Simmons v. Wiley Methodist Episcopal Church

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This is the appeal of the Wiley Methodist Episcopal Church (hereinafter called the defendant), one of the defendants below, from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiffs, in an action brought to recover for injuries sustained in a collision on a public highway between the automobile in which the plaintiffs were riding and an automobile truck owned by the defendant corporation and driven, as was alleged, by its servant.

The grounds of appeal challenge only the legal propriety of the refusal of the trial judge…