Roberts v. Lowery

JOHN B. RODES, Special Commissioner.

This is a suit for the death of an aged man, William Penn Roberts, against Lillian Lowery and her husband, caused by Roberts’ coming in contact with an automobile being driven by Mrs. Lowery in Murray on the evening of December 26, 1961, at about 5 :30 p. m.

Appellant alleged that while Roberts was “proceeding along the curb of West Olive Street or crossing Olive Street” he was negligently struck by Mrs. Lowery’s car and seriously injured, from which injuries he died on June 6, 1962. The case is novel in that Roberts never regained consciousness before his…