Gaines v. Hawkins

170 S.E.2d 676 (1969)

Stanley N. GAINES

v.

Earl Vernon HAWKINS, etc., et al.

No. 12788.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Submitted September 9, 1969.

Decided October 21, 1969.

Payne, Minor, Ray, Price & Loeb, Walter C. Price, Jr., John L. Ray, Charleston, for appellants.

Dean E. Lewis, Charleston, for appellee.

BERRY, Judge.

This case involves a civil action instituted in the Common Pleas Court of Kanawha County by Stanley N. Gaines against Earl Vernon Hawkins and Alice Carrine Hawkins to recover damages for alleged personal injuries to Gaines arising out of an automobile accident which…