Redding v. Independent Contracting Co.

MOREMEN, Judge.

Appellant, Anna M. Betts, administratrix of the estate of Allie Edwards, deceased, and appellant, Elmer Lee Redding, filed actions seeking to recover damages for death and injury alleged to have resulted from negligence of appellee, Independent Contracting Company, when it was in the course of repairing and resurfacing a part of U. S. Highway 421. The cases were tried together and resulted in a verdict and judgment for the appellee company.

On July 13, 1956, Redding met Mrs. Edwards about four o’clock in the afternoon in Frankfort. They went to a restaurant. Each of them drank a…