Taylor v. Patterson's Adm'r

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Baird

Affirming.

"William Taylor appeals from a judgment rendered -against him in the Boyd circuit court on December 3, 1936, for $7,000 damages in favor of Charles R. Holbrook, Jr., administrator of the estate of Billy Patterson, deceased. Holbrook as administrator sought damages in the sum of $25,000, because of the injury of Patterson which produced his death.

Patterson was a negro boy less than seven years of age. William Taylor owned and operated a jitney bus under a license according to the laws and ordinances of the city of Ashland, Boyd county, Ky. On April…