Lightner v. Frank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This case involves consolidated appeals in two district court cases filed by the children of a farm couple seeking to recover damages for their wrongful deaths. The case arose out of an automobile collision which occurred at the intersection of two county roads in Haskell County, Kansas, on September 25, 1980. At the time of the collision, Jessie Lightner was driving a pickup truck used in farming operations. It collided with a truck driven by the defendant, Linden Litwiller, and owned by defendant Floyd Frank, his employer. As a result of…