Jones v. Agnew

Appeal by Charles Jones, d/b/a Orange Mound Undertaking" Company, from a judgment of *429$25,000 in favor of the plaintiff below for the death of Miss Mary Jane Agnew.

The deceased, who was 39 years of age and employed at a salary of $300 per month with the Railway Express Company, was killed on the morning of January 14, 1953, while walking across Lamar Avenue, in Memphis, Tennessee. She was struck by an ambulance owned by the defendant, Charles Jones.

At the time of the fatal accident the ambulance was being driven by John Brown, accompanied by James Duckett, both employees of the defendant,…