Lee v. Stamper

CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellees Lockard and Stamper recovered judgments against appellant Lee in the respective amounts of $2,500 and $4,000 for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Appellees were guests in appellant’s automobile. Appellant drove across a bridge at about 40 miles an hour, passed an oncoming loaded hay truck on a sharp curve to the right, ran off the highway, traveled over 200 feet on the shoulder of the road, then swerved and struck an embankment on the left hand side.

At the trial appellees testified the truck was on its proper side and appellant did not leave…