Carpenter v. Galloway

PALMORE, Judge.

Donald Galloway was killed in a head on sideswipe collision between a track he was driving and another truck driven by the appellant Dixon and owned by the appellant Carpenter, against both of whom Galloway’s administratrix recovered a verdict and judgment for $35,000 in this wrongful death action. The questions on appeal are whether (a) the evidence was sufficient to support the verdict, (b) evidence of the decedent’s accumulated estate was improperly admitted, and (c) the instructions were prejudicially erroneous.

The accident occurred on Kentucky Highway 17 several miles…