Kent v. Singleton

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the defendant in a wrongful death action tried on a count of wantonness. We affirm.

On April 10, 1981, Dana LaGail Kent, the deceased daughter of the plaintiff, was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Cow Pen Creek Road in Escambia County, Alabama. Kent and the defendant,1 Perry Franklin Singleton, both eleventh grade students at Escambia Academy, were on their way to a store after leaving a party celebrating their junior-senior prom. As they were traveling on Cow Pen Creek Road in a pickup truck owned by the…