Pinson Transfer Co. v. Music

LATIMER, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted from a judgment in the sum of $5000 in favor of plaintiff below.

Appellant, Pinson Transfer Company, doing a trucking business is engaged in hauling general commodities in interstate commerce with its authorized operations extending to and from Paintsville, Kentucky. Norman Johnson, the driver of the truck involved in the accident herein, lived at East Point, a village lying outside of Paintsville. On February 9, which was the day preceding the accident, it appears that the truck had on it a quantity of coffee to be delivered on the following day. The…