Howard v. Fields

DAVIS, Commissioner.

In this motor vehicle collision case the trial court directed a verdict against Woodrow Howard, plaintiff-appellant. Howard has appealed, insisting that the court erred in directing the verdict against him and in permitting an intervening complaint by United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company for subrogation.

On a day in May, Howard was driving a beer truck on Kentucky Highway 80 in Perry County when he observed a coal truck driven by appellee Fields stopped on the highway at the entrance to a narrow, two-lane bridge. When Howard first observed that Fields was stopping the…