Western Production Company v. Nell Rose Holman Yarbrough

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict awarding the widow and her two minor children a total recovery of $40,000.00 for the death of the husband and father, Edward Yar-brough, as a result of the alleged negligence of appellant’s truck driver in an automobile-truck collision which occurred about 9:15 P.M. on January 15, 1954, on U. S. Highway No. 71, approximately ten miles south of Bunkie in the Parish of St. Landry, Louisiana. The basic question presented, raised by motions for a directed verdict and alternatively for new trial below, is the…