Peel v. Gulf Transport Co.

This is a personal injury suit for a death claim, growing out of an automobile accident in which a bus collided with a truck while attempting to pass. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant, appellee here, in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, and from an adverse order and judgment overruling appellants’ motion for a new trial, the cause has been appealed to this Court. A narrative of the facts here involved are as follows: At or about four o’clock on the morning of December 24, 1963, Harold F. Peel, a young man twenty-one years of age got out of bed at his…