Wright's Adm'r v. Carroll County

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Stites

Affirming.

Otis Wilson Wright was killed on February 21, 1933, on the state highway between Carrollton and Milton in Carroll County. It is alleged that he was driving a truck and undertook to cross a bridge which gave way. The truck was precipitated into the water, resulting in Wright’s death. Thereafter, the General Assembly, at its 1936 session, adopted a resolution (House Resolution No. 20) “authorizing Carl Wright, administrator of the estate of Otis Wilson Wright, deceased, to sue the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the State Highway Commission and the…