Will M. Chandler and Mary L. Hays Chandler v. Edgar W. Long, Inc. And J. L. Lawson

CECIL, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs-appellants, Will M. Chandler and his wife, Mary L. Hays Chandler, from a judgment on a jury verdict in favor of defendant-appellees, Edgar W. Long, Inc. and J. L. Lawson, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

The cause of action arose as a result of an accident occurring in Covington, Kentucky, on September 27, 1974, in which a 1973 tractor-trailer truck, driven by appellant Will M. Chandler, was struck from the rear by a 1971 tractor-trailer truck, driven by appellee, J. L. Lawson. All parties to…