Harris v. Hub Motor Co.

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff appeals from the overruling of his motion for a new trial, after verdict and judgment for the defendant, asserting error on the jury instructions regarding negligence rules as given or omitted. Held:

1. There was some evidence which would have authorized the jury to determine by inference that the defendant’s servant negligently failed to fill the radiator of a truck engine, after replacing a defective heater hose, which caused the engine to overheat, and that the plaintiff driver, upon raising the hood, over the engine to investigate the cause of steam or…