D. G. Hayes Wholesale Grocery Co. v. Fortney's Adm'r

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Ratliff

Affirming.

In September, 1935, the appellant, D. G. Hayes Wholesale Grocery Company, a partnership composed of D. G. Hayes and others, were operating, by their driver Earl Carter, a motor truck in a southerly direction from Louisville, Kentucky, over Highway No. 31-W. The truck had passed through Fort Knox, in Hardin County and while on a curve near the railroad overpass, it collided with a Chevrolet Coupé being driven in a northerly direction by appellee’s decedent, Lonnie R. Fortney, and resulted in the death of Fortney. Vollie Fortney was appointed…