Clemons v. Harvey

WILLIAMS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to appellee Bob Harvey for injuries received when he was struck by a taxicab driven by appellant Sewell Clemons.

The accident occurred about a mile south of Jackson, Kentucky, on Kentucky Highway No. 15. At that point the highway runs north and south, and has a blacktop surface 18 feet wide with four-foot gravel shoulders. The accident occurred about noon on a clear, dry day. The posted speed limit in that location is 35 miles per hour.

*67The appellee’s version of what happened is as follows: He and his wife had driven from…