Ashe v. Hughes

Appellees brought suit for damages for the destruction of their automobile in a highway wreck, and obtained a verdict for $300, from which an appeal is taken. The sole assignment of error involves an instruction given the ^plaintiffs.

Olathe night of August 5, 1952, a wrecker owned by appellants, and then operated by their employee, was engaged in rescuing a wrecked Chevrolet car which had run off the paved highway, about two miles north of Okolona, and several miles south of Tupelo. At about nine-thirty the car had been pulled up on the highway, facing north on the east half of the pavement.…