Jones v. Royal Palm Ice Co.

HORTON, Judge.

The appellants seek a review and reversal of a final judgment entered pursuant to a directed verdict granted at the close of the appellants’ case in chief.

The facts are relatively simple and without dispute. One Preechl, an employee of M. R. McCorkle, while operating an ice truck owned by McCorkle, ran into the rear of an automobile operated by the appellant William Harley Jones in which his wife, appellant Mary Irene Jones, was a passenger. Suit was brought for damages resulting from personal injuries sustained by the appellant Mary Irene Jones as well as a derivative cause of…