Patterson v. Seibenhener

SIMPSON, Justice.

This appeal challenges the action of the trial court in refusing the affirmative charge requested by appellants on the two negli- ’ gence counts contained in the complaint.

The record discloses that Luther S. Seibenhener, appellee, was a passenger in a pickup truck belonging to his employers, and was being transported from the site of a construction job in Fayette County, Alabama, to his home in Cullman County. He was accompanied by two fellow employees, J. D. Pinkard, and the driver, Gladis Patterson, one of the defendants below. The three men traveled together to Fayette…