Stobaugh v. Hubbard

Heartsill Ragon, Special Justice.

At approximately 5:00 A. M., while returning to McCrory from Newport, Arkansas, after a sociable evening, Joe P. Stobaugh was killed while a passenger in a car driven and owned by J. M. Hubbard. Hubbard was also killed and Edward E. Peebles, a passenger, was seriously hurt.

The administrator of Stobaugh’s estate sued Hubbard’s estate and the owner of the truck with which Hubbard’s car collided. At the conclusion of the evidence, a verdict was directed against the administrator of Stobaugh’s estate in the action against Hubbard’s estate, resulting in the appeal…