Porter-DeWitt Construction Co. v. Danley

Robinson, Justice.

This lawsuit grows out of a head-on collision between an automobile owned and operated by appellee, Hale Danley, who was the plaintiff in the trial court, and a truck owned and driven by one Edd White. The complaint alleges that White, at the time of the collision, was acting as agent, servant, and employee of the defendant Porter-DeWitt Construction Company, Inc., a Missouri corporation authorized to do business in Arkansas. Both White and Porter-DeWitt were made defendants. There was a jury verdict in the sum of $5,500 in favor of Danley as against Porter-DeWitt, but there…