Wheat's Adm'r v. Gray

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Sims—

Affirming.

William Wheat, a two year old child, while crossing the Perryville-Lebanon highway alone, was struck and killed by an automobile owned by Ray P. Gray, and driven by his son, Earl Gray, a young man twenty-two years of age. The child’s father qualified as his administrator and brought this action against the Grays for $20,000 damages for the alleged negligent killing of William. The answer was a general denial followed by a plea of contributory negligence upon the part of the parents of the child in placing him in the custody of his nine year…