Douglas v. Adams Trucking Co., Inc.

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, Loye Douglas, appeals from the judgment of the circuit court in which the court found that appellee Adams Trucking Co., Inc., was entitled to an offset of $108,734.57 against the jury’s award of damages in the amount of $178,000. We affirm the finding of an offset, but we reverse and remand with instructions to modify the offset amount to $76,723.24.

The facts of this case arise from a personal injury-action. On June 5, 1997, appellant Loye Douglas, a 55-year-old chicken farmer, was driving his tractor with an attached mower along the side of Highway 10…