Addair v. Bryant

Miller, Justice:

Arnold Bryant and Leander Lester, (defendants), appeal from jury verdicts rendered against them in two wrongful death actions tried in the Circuit Court of McDowell County. Their primary allegations of error are: (1) that the trial court incorrectly refused their instruction on contributory negligence; and (2) that the trial court also erred in not permitting defendants to introduce, for purposes of mitigating the damage claim, evidence that the wife of one of the plaintiffs’ decedents had remarried. Certain other errors are asserted as to evidentiary matters and complaint is…