MORROW v. DRUMWRIGHT


304 S.W.2d 313 (1957)

S. B. MORROW et al. v. J. W. DRUMWRIGHT et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied June 7, 1957.

Second Petition for Rehearing Denied July 29, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Adams and L. L. Harrell, Trenton, Robert S. Thomas, Ripley, for petitioners.

John W. Norris, Brownsville, for respondents.


SWEPSTON, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case, the same has been argued and we now dispose of the contentions of the parties.

In April 1954, Verneda Morrow, a Negro woman, was killed instantly as a result of being struck by a truck being driven by Billy Joe Drumwright, a minor son of J.W. Drumwright, the owner of the truck while the decedent was walking along the shoulder of the highway or the edge of the highway at night-time. She was survived by...

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