HOOVER MOTOR EXPRESS COMPANY v. EDWARDS


277 S.W.2d 475 (1955)

HOOVER MOTOR EXPRESS COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellants, v. Fannie EDWARDS, Executrix of the Estate of Leamon D. Edwards, Deceased, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing April 29, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin & Franklin, Madisonville, for appellants.

R. Vance Hartke, Evansville, Ind., Gordon & Gordon & Mills, Madisonville, for appellee.


MONTGOMERY, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by Hoover Motor Express Company, Inc., and Cleve Burkheart, driver of its truck, from a judgment in the sum of $10,000 in favor of Fannie Edwards, executrix of the estate of Leamon D. Edwards, deceased.

The decedent was fatally injured in a collision between appellant's loaded trailer-truck and his passenger automobile. The truck driver was the only eyewitness. The collision occurred about ten miles north of Madisonville...

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