Coleman v. Newsome

1. Applying the answer of the Supreme Court to the question certified to it by this court in this case (Coleman v. Newsome, 179 Ga. 47), the trial judge erred in refusing to qualify the jury by purging the panel of any employees of the defendant’s insurance carrier, such error being a reversible one and rendering nugatory the further proceedings in the cause.

2. This case was an action to recover for the death of the plaintiff’s husband alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in operating his automobile and colliding with an automobile driven by the plaintiff’s husband.…