Carter Truck Line v. Gibson

Russell Carter appeals from a judgment rendered against him in the Boone circuit court. Carter was operating some trucks out of Mountain Home, Arkansas. He employed two truck drivers, Chunk Woods and Clarence Vickery. About 6:30 o ’clock, on the even, ing of July 17, 1937, Vickery, in driving one of the trucks' north of Mountain Home, ran into a buggy, driven by Tom Gibson and his son, Neal Gibson. In this accident Tom Gibson was killed. Ida Gibson and her children, the appellees, sued Russell Carter on account of this accident. This suit resulted in a verdict of $10,000 against Carter, and…