Perdue v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment in the amount of $12,500 which the circuit court entered in the plaintiff’s favor after a jury returned a verdict for him. The defendants-appellants are the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company and one of its employees, Robert L. Glathar. The complaint charged that, through Glathar’s negligent operation, a pickup truck, owned by the corporate defendant, collided with an automobile driven by the plaintiff, which was attempting to pass it, thereby injuring the plaintiff.

The defendants-appellants present four assignments of error. The first…