Mason v. Loving

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This action for personal injuries and for wrongful death was brought by the appellant individually and as executor of his wife’s estate. The case arose from a rear-end collision between Mason’s car, occupied by him and his wife, and a tractor-trailer owned by the appellee Southern Rendering Company and being driven by its employee, the appellee Roy Loving. The case was submitted to the jury on interrogatories. In answer to the first interrogatory the jury found that Loving had not been guilty of any negligence that was a proximate cause of the collision. Upon that…