BARBER PURE MILK COMPANY v. Holmes

MAYFIELD, Justice.

This is an appeal from final judgments rendered in behalf of both appellees, the plaintiffs below, by the circuit court of Jefferson County. This appeal involves two actions, one for personal injuries to the plaintiff, Vernice Holmes, and the other for loss of consortium on the part of her husband, Alva L. Holmes. Both here and in the trial court, the actions were consolidated.

The accident out of which these cases arose occurred on 9 February 1952 at approximately 9:00 A.M. According to the testimony of Vernice Holmes, she had been in Greenwood’s Cafe, Birmingham, shortly…