Daniels v. Tackett

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The judgment appealed from awarded damages for personal injuries against appellants to appellee Joe Lee Tackett, a passenger in an automobile driven by appel-lee Billy Robinson, Jr., which rammed the appellants’ car in the rear.

The accident occurred soon after midnight the morning of August 31, 1964. Appellant Jerry L. Daniels, then a minor, was driving south on U. S. 23 in Johnson County towards Paintsville in an automobile owned by his mother, appellant Shirley Ross. U. S. Highway 23 is a two-lane road at this point. Daniels stopped (there is some question whether gradually…