Basham's Adm'x v. Witt

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Affirming-.

Appellee, Boyd Witt, is the owner of a g-arage furnishing wrecker service in Richmond, Kentucky. Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 18, 1939, his wrecker was engaged to pull a truck from a ditch about 6% miles south of Richmond. The wrecker was in charge of appellee’s employee, Charles McKnight, who was accompanied to the scene of the accident by Wade Christopher. Appellant’s decedent, Thad Basham, reached the scene of the accident at about the time the wrecker arrived, and, it appears, assisted McKnight, Christopher, and…