CALDWELL v. KELLY


302 S.W.2d 815 (1957)

Roosevelt CALDWELL b/n/f et al. v. Elmer KELLY.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey M. Yaffe, David D. Silberberg and J.E. Madden, Memphis, for plaintiffs-in-error.

Shepherd, Heiskell, Williams, Beal & Wall, Memphis, for defendants-in-error.


TOMLINSON, Justice.

Roosevelt Caldwell was allegedly injured in a traffic accident in which there was involved a truck belonging to John Thomas Fawcett, and being driven at the time on Fawcett's business by Fawcett's servant, Elmer Kelly. Suits were instituted in behalf of Caldwell, a minor, and by his parents, against both Kelly, the servant, and Fawcett, the master. After a trial on the merits of the cases consolidated, the jury returned verdicts in favor of the...

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