Blain v. Sullivan

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, rendered in favor of plaintiff-appellee, B. F. Sullivan, administrator of the estate of Douglas McArthur Harvey, deceased, in the amount of $45,000 as damages for Harvey’s death. He was killed when at night he drove his car past warning signs into an asphalt spreader parked on the shoulder of a road under construction, and not open for general and unrestricted public use. The defendants-appellants are the prime contractor for the construction of the road, W. E. Blain & Son…