Coleman v. Byrnes

This is an automobile-bicycle collision case.

Young Mark Coleman age 11% suffered severe injuries when his bicycle collided with the half ton pickup truck of Byrnes Plumbing Company being driven by an employee Lemons on his employer’s business.

Separate suits by the minor for his injuries and by his father for expenses were consolidated for trial, and tried together before the court and to a jury which rendered verdicts of $9,000 and $3500 respectively. On defendant’s written motion for a new trial the verdicts were set aside and verdicts in favor of defendants directed. Plaintiffs appealed in…