Hawkins, Admr. v. Rye

*135Holmes, J.

On the morning of June 14, 1956, at about 9:15 o’clock, the appellee, William H. Rye, accompanied by his wife, was driving his automobile south along the highway from his home in Pulton, Mississippi, to Nettleton, Mississippi. His automobile struck and ran over Roger Twain Hawkins, a child four and a half years of age, rendering him unconscious and injuring him to the extent that he died before he could be gotten to a doctor. William Thomas Hawkins, the father of the child, qualified as the administrator of his estate and brought this suit in the Circuit Court of Itawamba County…