Estate of Miles v. Burcham

LAMAR, Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Following a motor-vehicle accident, Virgil Burcham sued Edward Miles’s estate for negligence and negligence per se. Burcham received a $60,000 judgment, from which the Miles estate appeals. We affirm the judgment as to liability, subject to remittitur.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶ 2. On November 3, 2005, Edward Miles drove his pickup truck into an intersection in front of Virgil Burcham’s eighteen-wheel fuel truck.1 Miles was transported by helicopter to the Regional *217Medical Center in Memphis, where he died several hours later.2 At the accident scene, Burcham…