Ashland Oil & Refining Co. v. Brashear

CULLEN, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Hardin Circuit Court awarding Esther Minnie Brashear, et al., appellees herein, the sum of $20,000 for damages resulting from an automobile accident. The only issue to be decided is whether the uncontroverted physical facts together with the testimony of disinterested eyewitnesses are sufficient to establish that the verdict was flagrantly against the evidence.

On the morning of December 27, 1949, Johnnie Calhoun and his fiancee, Esther Minnie Brashear, her two sons, Allen and Robert Brashear (11 and 13 years old respectively) and…