Commonwealth v. Dever

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Reversing.

By resolution of the General Assembly adopted at its 1938 session, Acts 1938, c. 193, the personal representative of Alda Dever, deceased, was authorized to sue the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the State Highway Commission in the Henderson Circuit Court to recover such damages as may have been sustained by reason of the negligence of the State Highway Commission, its agents, servants, or employees. The resolution conferred like authority upon Mrs. Dever’s two sons, Logan and William Dever, bnt the present appeal involves only the correctness of a…