Paup v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

This is an action at law to recover damages, growing out of an accident, to an automobile owned by plaintiff. A trial to a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment against the defendant, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, and for plaintiff, in the sum of $600, and a verdict in favor of defendant Short. From the order overruling its motion for a new trial, the telephone company appeals.

It appears that plaintiff, an automobile dealer, was driving- a new Nash automobile, just delivered to him by the distributors at Omaha, eastward from that city to his place of business at Denison, Iowa. En…