Hicks v. Westbrook

This is an appeal from a $6,000 judgment awarded to the plaintiffs in an automobile accident case.

The present case arose when the plaintiffs, Marjorie L. Hicks and Julie Nicole Odom, were involved in an automobile accident with a tractor-trailer rig, operated by defendant Dale William Westbrook. The record indicates that on January 28, 1982 one Bill Austin telephoned defendant Bobby Westbrook and asked him if he could deliver a load to Atlanta for the defendant Cardinal Transport Company. Defendant Bobby Westbrook's trailer was already loaded and, for this reason, he instructed his son,…