Howard v. Jackson County

MICKLE, Judge.

Appellants have consolidated their appeals from a jury verdict and final judgment finding the defendant, Jackson County (“County”), not liable in their consolidated negligence actions. The incident from which this case arose is a November 1987 collision of two vehicles driven by Jeffrey Howard and Sallie Ivey on a depressed section of two-lane County Road 162, on which a pool of water 25 feet long and 6 feet wide had formed. We reverse.the judgment and remand this cause for a new trial.

Appellants essentially alleged that the County’s failure to clip or slope the shoulders of…