Dowell v. Bivins

REYNOLDS, Judge.

A Daviess Circuit Court jury returned a verdict for appellee-driver of motor vehicle that had struck and killed a five-year-old infant child upon a public highway, and appellants-parents and administrator appeal from the adverse judgment.

On the early afternoon of January 4, 1975, appellee, Leroy Bivins, was operating his automobile eastwardly upon Highway 405 in Daviess County near the Wright’s Landing Road intersection. Mr. Bivins had just met and passed a westbound vehicle when the infant, accompanied by his two dogs, attempted to cross from the north side of the road to the…