Tennessee Valley Appliances, Inc. v. Rowden

This was an action by the plaintiff Rowden against J. A. Cleaver and Tennessee Valley Appliances, Inc., to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by him when he was run down on a highway by an automobile owned and driven by Cleaver, averred to have been an employee of the Tennessee Valley Appliances, Inc.

The defendants pleaded the general issue of not guilty.

The case was tried by the judge and a jury. At the close of the evidence for the plaintiff and again at the conclusion of all the evidence each defendant moved the court for peremptory instructions in his favor, which motions were…