Allen v. Minix

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Magoffin Circuit Court granting $9,000 damages to Hester Minix, appellee, for injuries received while riding as a passenger in an automobile owned by Charles Allen, appellant, and driven by Jean Minix, sister of appellee.

On May 14, 1957, the appellee, Hester, age thirty-five, desired to go from her home at Royalton, Kentucky, to West Liberty, a distance of thirty miles, to see a doctor. Her friend, Charles Allen, appellant (who later married appellee), allowed her to use his car, and Allen asked Hester’s sister, Jean Minix, aged…