STEGALL v. RUMPH

No. 5-1255.

303 S.W.2d 571 (1957)

Bessie STEGALL and J.C. Stegall, Husband in his own right of Bessie Stegall, Appellants, v. Irene L. RUMPH, J. Dudley Rumph, Thomas L. Rumph, doing business as Rumph Mortuary, and Lucille (Mrs. W.E.) Hickman, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

July 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Hubert Mayes, Little Rock, Shackleford & Shackleford, J. M. Shackleford, Jr., El Dorado for appellants.

L. B. Smead, Camden, Mahony & Yocum, El Dorado, for appellants.


HARRIS, Chief Justice.

Mrs. Bessie Stegall, 62 years of age, was a passenger in an automobile with several members of her family, on the night of January 18, 1955, when said automobile was involved in a head-on collision with another car, driven by one Raymond Dennis, on the Magnolia highway, a few miles from the city limits of El Dorado, Arkansas.1 An ambulance was dispatched from the Rumph Mortuary to the scene of the collision to carry...

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