Atlantic Refining Company and Great American Indemnity Company v. Lucille Evans, Wife of and Reverend Fred Lewis

This damage suit for personal injuries (and hospital and doctors’ bills) sustained in a head-on collision between two automobiles in the nighttime was tried in the court below by the Judge sitting without jury. After hearing the testimony of appellee Lewis, driver of one car, and his wife, and a state trooper who investigated the accident shortly after it happened, and that of the driver of the other car, the court rendered judgment in favor of Lucille Evans Lewis for $13,000.00, and in favor of her husband for $1,649.20, hospital and doctors’ bills.

We are asked to reverse on the grounds that…