Brooks v. Cox

MADDOX, Justice.

The appellant, Charles Brooks, who was the plaintiff in the court below, sues as the administrator of the estate of his deceased wife, Jewell Brooks, who died in a car-truck collision at the intersection of the Choccolocco and Iron City Road and Highway 9 in Calhoun County, Alabama. The deceased was a passenger in an automobile driven by the appellant’s daughter, Mrs. Moran. The driver of the pickup truck was the appellee, Manley Cox, Jr.

At the trial Mrs. Moran testified that she was traveling east on the Choccolocco Road and that as she approached a stop sign on that road at…