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DEATON, INC. v. BURROUGHS

82-1113.

456 So.2d 771 (1984)

DEATON, INC. v. Jean BURROUGHS, the Widow of James Julian Burroughs, etc.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 7, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Somerville, Jr. and Stephen A. Rowe of Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, for appellant.

Neal C. Newell, D. Leon Ashford, and Francis H. Hare, Jr. of Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, for appellee.

ALMON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a wrongful death action which arose out of a collision between two flatbed tractor-trailer trucks.

David Tate drove a tractor-trailer truck as an employee of Deaton, Inc. (Deaton). At approximately 1:00 a.m. on November 17, 1980, Tate left Birmingham, Alabama, driving a Deaton flatbed tractor-trailer truck northbound on Interstate Highway 59 en route to...

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