Hall v. Hamlin

STEPHEN P. WHITE, Jr., Special Commissioner.

Appellee Kathryn Hamlin was injured April 4, -1968, in a collision near London, Kentucky, between the car she was driving and one driven by appellant Merle Hall. Trial before a jury in December, 1969, resulted in a substantial verdict for Kathryn and a much smaller one for the property damages of the other appellees who owned the car driven by Kathryn.

Kathryn was travelling alone, but Hall had several passengers in his car including his half-brother Verían Burkhart. Both Kathryn and Hall suffered traumatic loss of memory from the force of the…