Lambert v. Miller's Adm'r

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

On December 25, 1936, S. A. Healey hired a taxicab 'owned by John Lay and driven by Pete Lambert to transport him, his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Healey, their son, Chester Glenn Healey, and Mrs. Healey’s mother, Mrs. Kitty Miller, from Harlan to Middlesboro and return. They left Middlesboro on the return trip about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and when the taxicab reached a point near Tanyard Hill, on the road leading from Pineville to Harlan, it collided with an automobile owned and driven by Frank Freeman, who was traveling in the opposite direction,* that…