Basham v. Southeastern Motor Truck Lines, Inc.

This is a suit brought in the circuit court of Davidson County by Angie Amelia Basham, widow, a resident of Nashville, Tennessee, to recover damages for the negligent death of her husband. She declares that her deceased husband was regularly employed by the defendant Southeastern Motor Truck Lines, Inc., a Tennessee corporation with its principal office in Nashville, as a truck driver; that the defendant was engaged in the business of operating interstate a line of trucks for the hauling of freight; that while driving one of defendant’s trucks from Atlanta, G-eorgia, to Nashville on the night…