Legal Opinion
Bearden v. Arkansas Transport Co.
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 25, 1971No. 5-5621PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.
This appeal relates to the legal doctrine of joint enterprise. On November 2, 1965, a collision occurred near El Dorado on Highway 167 between a northbound tanker truck owned by appellee, Arkansas Transport Company, and driven by A. E. Greer, and a southbound Mercury automobile owned and driven by Lois Ann Phelan, and in which Jack Wesley Johnson was riding. As a result of the collision, Greer, Miss Phelan, and Johnson were all killed, and this suit was instituted by Arkansas Transport, and the widow and child (by her guardian) against the administrator of the…
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