John Oliver Stewart and David Sims v. Roland W. Banks

Appellee won a $115,000 verdict in a damage suit involving personal injuries received when a car driven by his minor daughter collided with a truck owned by Appellant Sims. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

Appellants’ (owner of the truck and driver) first assertion of error is that they were prejudiced by the sys tematic exclusion of Negroes from the jury panel because the driver of the truck at the time of accident was a Negro. While it is true that a litigant in a civil case, just as the accused in a criminal case, is entitled to a jury panel selected from a fair cross-section of the…