Moore v. Wheeler

MILLIKEN, Judge.

On March 12, 1965, shortly after 1:00 p. m., E.S.T., three sisters, Beulah Moore, Mabel Wheeler and Jewell Yates were traveling north in Beulah Moore’s car on U.S. Highway 23 in Boyd County, Kentucky. U.S. 23 is a twenty-four-foot wide, blacktopped, straight highway at the point of the accident and has a ten-foot wide gravel berm on each side of the highway. Appellant Moore was driving, Mabel Wheeler was in the middle of the front seat, and Jewell Yates sat by the front right door of the Moore 1960 Chevrolet station wagon. The weather was clear, the road dry and its surface…