Forman v. Washington

The administrator, plaintiff below, has appealed from a judgment dismissing his suit at the close of plaintiff’s proof, a motion for a directed verdict in behalf of the defendant having been sustained. The suit was instituted for the alleged negligent killing of J. Ernest Froman, plaintiff’s intestate. The intestate, a young man, was killed in Memphis, Tennessee, in an automobile collision. The intestate was riding in a ear driven by one James Purvis. The car that struck the Purvis car was operated by Mrs. Kate Washington, wife of the defendant, Dr. C. J. Washington. Suit was brought against…