Meadows v. Bailey

PALMORE, Judge.

Bobby Bailey, while driving an automobile, was fatally injured in a sideswipe collision with a truck driven by Earl Meadows, a 17-year old boy. In this wrongful death action Bailey’s administrator recovered judgment on a $5,000. jury verdict rendered jointly and severally against Meadows and against Earl Bowling and wife, Ethel Bowling. The case against the Bowlings rests on the theory that they owned the truck, permitted Meadows to use it, and are liable under KRS 186.590(3). All three defendants appeal.

*632The accident happened on Kentucky Highway 30 a mile or so east of East…