Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Talbot

STRUM, Circuit Judge.

Defendant below, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, appeals from a judgment awarding damages against it for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s- husband, Roger Talbot, due to the negligent operation of an automobile by defendant’s employee while acting in the scope of his employment.

About mid-day on November 6, 1951, plaintiff’s husband was driving his automobile easterly along a paved highway, 18 feet wide, on the outskirts of Macon, Georgia. The terrain in the vicinity is somewhat “rolling.” Defendant’s employee, accompanied by a fellow-employee, was driving westerly…