Gilliland v. Pierce Motor Co.

Moss, Justice.

This action was instituted by Tillman L. Gilliland and St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company, a corporation, the appellants herein, against Pierce Motor Co., Inc., the respondent herein, seeking actual and punitive damages for alleged personal injury suffered by Tillman L. Gilliland, on December 26, 1956, through the alleged negligence and willfulness of the respondent. St. Paul-Mercury Indemnity Company, one of the appellants, was the Workmen’s Compensation Insurer of Bell Laundry, the employer of Gilliland, and was joined as a party as statutory assignee of Gilliland’s cause of…