Jones v. Southern General Insurance

HARDY, Judge.

This is an action ex delicto in which plaintiff seeks damages resulting from the death of her minor son, Donald Wayne Jones, who was fatally injured while a passenger in a log truck insured by defendant.

On a previous appeal by plaintiff from judgment sustaining a motion for summary judgment, this court reversed the judgment of the lower court and remanded the case for trial on the merits (159 So.2d 307). Following trial there was judgment in favor of plaintiff in the principal sum of $10,-000.00, from which defendant has appealed.

The facts are undisputed. Plaintiff’s ■decedent,…