Whitehead v. Cogar

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff/appellee Cogar was employed as a carpenter by a contractor working on property located on Bishop Drive, a residential street in Columbus, Georgia. At the beginning of the work day, he had parked his automobile on the shoulder of the two-lane road upon which the property abutted, and his employer had parked his pick-up truck a few feet behind Cogar’s. At the end of the day’s work Cogar went to the rear of his own vehicle to put his tools inside.

At the same time appellant Whitehead was driving his father’s automobile along Bishop Road, where the speed limit was…