SHEWMAKER v. RICHESON


344 S.W.2d 802 (1961)

Ormon Earl SHEWMAKER et al., Appellants, v. Brenda RICHESON, an Infant, by Robert Richeson, Next Friend, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 24, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Woodward, Bartlett & McCarroll, Owensboro, for appellants.

Humphreys, Jones, Beard & Rummage, Russel C. Jones, William E. Rummage, Owensboro, for appellee.


CLAY, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a $39,000 judgment for personal injuries sustained by Brenda Richeson, eleven years old, in a collision between an automobile in which she was riding and an automobile driven by appellant Shewmaker, an employee of his co-appellant, The Ashland Oil and Refining Company. The accident, a head-on collision, occurred during daylight. Several grounds are urged for reversal.

The road was 16 feet wide and without a line marking...

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