ARCHER J.
The plaintiff’s claims damages from the defendants jointly and severally for injuries sustained by him as a result of the negligent driving of the second defendant, a servant of the first defendant.
The plaintiff ‘sstory is that on 23 December 1964 at about 7 p.m. he and two others were walking on the road from Asuoso to Akroso in a line in which the plaintiff was ahead of the rest. They were walking on the grass verge off the road when they saw a vehicle approaching behind them from Asuoso. They gave way to this vehicle. There was another vehicle approaching them from the opposite direction, that is from Akroso and they also gave way to enable this vehicle to pass. But all of a sudden, this other vehicle drove carelessly on the grass verge and knocked down the plaintiff. The plaintiff testified that his left leg was on the grass verge while his right leg was in a gutter near the edge of the road. His evidence is that the near-side, that is the left side of this vehicle knock…