Hoover Motor Express Company v. Edwards

MONTGOMERY, Justice.

This appeal is prosecuted by Hoover Motor Express Company, Inc., and Cleve Burkheart, driver of its truck, from a judgment in the sum of $10,000 in favor of Fannie Edwards, executrix of the estate of Leamon D. Edwards, deceased.

The decedent was fatally injured in a collision between appellant’s loaded trailer-truck and his passenger automobile. The ■truck driver was the only eyewitness. The collision occurred about ten miles north of Madisonville on U.S. 41. The truck was traveling south, meeting decedent’s car traveling in the opposite direction. The time was shortly…