Hadad v. Lockeby

Appellee sued appellant for damages, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, resulting from appellee being struck by an automobile driven by appellant on highway 61 north of Vicksburg, just a few feet within the city limits, resulting in a verdict and judgment for two thousand two hundred fifty dollars, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

Like most personal injury cases, the testimony is conflicting. The appellee claimed he was sick and, through a negro, had ordered a taxicab to carry him to his son’s home who lived near the scene of the accident; that he and the negro, who was assisting him,…