Whitt v. Farley

STANLEY, Commissioner.

The jury found for the defendant, James Farley, in consolidated actions of Mrs. Hazel Rowe Whitt and Fred Myers for damages for injuries sustained by them in the wrecking of an automobile. A like verdict was returned for his co-defendant, Clay Farley, on a peremptory instruction. The plaintiffs appeal from the judgment entered on the verdicts.

The appellants were guests or passengers in the car, which was travelling through Virginia towards their home in Pike County, Kentucky, on an afternoon in July, 1953. Rain had made the road slippery. As the car was going down grade…