Hoover Motor Express Co. v. Thomas

In this court this is a contest between Hoover Motor Express Company, Inc., and George M. Thomas, administrator of the estate of Mary. Royer Cobb, deceased.

In the circuit court of Davidson county, the administrator sued Hoover Motor Express Company, Inc., Cordell Goad, and Ben P. Cassidy for $25,000 as damages, “both compensatory and punitive,” for the alleged wrongful killing of his intestate, and obtained the verdict of a jury, and judgment of the court thereon, for $19,000 and costs against ,the three defendants; whereupon the Hoover Motor Express Company, alone moved for a new trial, and…