Way v. Bohannon

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiff from the Trial Court’s granting defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiff’s proof.

This case arises out of a collision between a cow and an automobile in Putnam County, Tennessee, on December 15, 1981. Plaintiff Michelle Randolph Way was a passenger in a car driven by her friend Randy Way. The couple was returning from a shopping trip to their home in Monterey along U.S. Highway 70N about five miles east of Cookeville when the accident occurred.

At the point where the accident occurred, the highway geographically…