State Highway Commission v. Hall

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Perry

Beversing.

This suit against the commonwealth and the state highway commission for damages for personal injuries was authorized by a resolution of the General Assembly, chapter 461, Acts of 1936, permitting the appellee, G. B. Hall, to bring suit for recovery of such damages claimed to have been suffered by him and allegedly caused by tbe gross negligence of tbe state highway commission, its agents and employees in the operation of its grader along the state’s highway.

In this suit, brought pursuant to this given authority, a verdict was recovered by appellee…