Venable v. Burton

This action was commenced by defendant in error, as plaintiff, against plaintiffs in error, as defendants, to recover damages for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s 19-year-old daughter, Sue Ann Whitaker, a sophomore student in Oklahoma University, from being struck and run over by a diesel trailer-truck between 4:00 and 5 :00 A.M., January 27, 1957, on Highway No. 9, about 9 miles east of Eufaula, Oklahoma. The parties will hereinafter be referred to as they appeared in the trial court.

Shortly before the deceased was thus instantly killed, she had been riding in the front seat of a Mercury…