Bynum v. Wiggins

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a suit for personal injuries resulting when the petitioner’s minor daughter received a pistol wound while riding as a passenger in a taxicab. The petitioner is Hattie Ward Bynum, the mother and Natural Tutrix of her injured minor daughter, Alice Mae Ward Bynum. The defendants are Robert Wiggins, the father of the minor boy, Theodore Roosevelt Wiggins, who inflicted the wound upon the young girl, Leroy Johnson, the driver and operator of the taxicab, Thomas Wicks, the owner of the taxicab, and The Travelers Insurance Company, the insurer of the taxicab. The Lower Court…