Burress v. Dupree

MERRILL, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of $11,500.00 in favor of the plaintiff, and from a later judgment denying appellants’ motion for a new trial. The complaint consists of two counts, which allege that appellant Burress, while acting within the line and scope of his employment as agent, servant or employee of appellant Lowery, negligently operated a truck owned by appellant Lowery so that it was stopped on a public road at night without lights; and that as a proximate result of this negligence appellee’s automobile, which appellee was driving along the same road, struck…