Miller v. Goodwin

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This case has been in litigation for more than four and a half years, with four jury trials. On July 17, 1964, a heavy truck, described as a derrick-type rig used in the oil fields, swerved suddenly off the Warnock Springs Road in Columbia County, overturned, and caught on fire. The appellee ITerschel Goodwin, who was driving the truck, "was badly burned. Goodwin’s employer, Robert Beevers, who was riding with him, was even more severely burned and died less than ten hours later.

The original suit was for the wrongful death only. Beevers’ administratrix, the…