Vanlandingham v. Vanlandingham

Louis Elgin Vanlandingham (Elgin) appeals from a final order awarding a judgment on a jury verdict for $20,000.00 to the plaintiff, Eunice B. Vanlandingham (Eunice), administrator of the estate of Carroll Jett Vanlandingham (Carroll), deceased, in an action for the wrongful death of Carroll.

We granted a writ of error limited to a consideration of whether the trial court erred in granting instructions 5 and 8.

Carroll was killed in an accident which occurred around 9:00 p.m. on December 9, 1968, approximately three tenths of a mile west of Callao on U. S. Route 360. The road was a two-lane…