Michie v. Calhoun

BERNSTEIN, Justice.

These are wrongful death actions, consolidated for trial, for the death of the plaintiff’s husband and son in a tragic automobile accident on February 22, 1953. The plaintiff’s version of the accident was that the truck owned by the defendants Calhoun, partners, was negligently driven with glaring lights by their employee, defendant Gilbert, blinding the plaintiff’s husband, who was driving the vehicle in which the plaintiff and her son were passengers, and causing him to brake his vehicle and skid into the path of the oncoming truck. Defendants’ evidence was that Gilbert…