CORDES v. WOOTEN

83-1300.

476 So.2d 89 (1985)

James CORDES and Dewey Hutson v. Richard WOOTEN.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juliet G. St. John of St. John & St. John, Cullman, for appellants.

Larry Waites of Dinsmore, Waites and Stovall, Birmingham, and Roy W. Williams, Jr., Cullman, for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

Plaintiff Richard Wooten,1 while riding a motorcycle on Cullman County Road 18, collided with a hay rake being pulled by a tractor owned by co-defendant Dewey Hutson and driven by co-defendant James Cordes.

The jury returned a verdict in favor of Wooten for $300,000. Both defendants appeal.

On appeal, they claim that they were entitled to a directed verdict, because...

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