Netterville v. Crawford

On the night of April 17, 1954, about three o’clock in the morning, Alfred Wilkinson, was driving a truck-trailer vehicle on U. S. Highway 61, about half a mile south of the Homochitto River bridge. Wilkinson was alone in the truck. He was the servant of Benton E. Crawford and Bobbie C. Crawford, doing business as “ Crawf ord-Benton Plumbing & Butane Company”, located in McComb, Pike County, Mississippi. The trailer had upon it a large butane tank, loaded with butane gas. The butane gas was being transported from Benton, Louisiana, to McComb, Mississippi.

At the same time Fred Netterville was…