Collar v. McMullin

Maxwell, Judge:

James E. McMullin, one of three defendants, prosecutes, this writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of Mercer county in favor of Evelyn M. Collar, administratrix of Roland Ii. Collar, deceased, for $8,000.00 for the alleged wrongful death of her intestate. The Bluefield Grocery Company and R. Lacy Croy, the two other defendants, were exonerated from liability, and are not before the Court on this writ of error.

The suit was an outcome of an automobile accident. On June 18,1928, McMullin, a salesman for tbe Bluefield Grocery Company, was returning from Bland County,…