Hunt-Berlin Coal Co. v. McDonald Coal Co.

An action of damages instituted by the McDonald Coal Company, a corporation, who will hereinafter be referred to ’as plaintiff, against the Hunt-Berlin Coal Company, a corporation, who will hereinafter be referred to as defendant, to recover damages for injury to a passenger automobile, the property of plaintiff, by reason of a collision with a coal truck of the defendant, which had been left in a disabled condition on Jackson avenue, a thoroughfare of the city of Memphis.

The ground of negligence relied upon by plaintiff for a recovery against defendant was that defendant had permitted its…