MARSHALL v. KOPESKY

S.C. 2814.

361 So.2d 76 (1978)

Eligha MARSHALL et al. v. Ron E. KOPESKY, as Administrator, etc.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Boyd Reeves and Norman E. Waldrop, Jr., Mobile, for appellants.

John D. Richardson, Patrick M. Sigler, Donald M. Briskman, Mobile, for appellee.


FAULKNER, Justice.

Vernell Hollings was killed when the pulpwood truck he was driving was struck by a tractor-trailer rig driven by defendant Eligha Marshall, an employee of Underwood Builders Supply Co. Marshall and Underwood appeal from a jury verdict of $100,000 against them in favor of the administrator of Hollings' estate. We affirm.

This suit for wrongful death was originally instituted in March, 1975, by Lucrether Mae Hollings, the purported common...

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