Brown Transport Co. v. Parker

129 Ga. App. 737 (1973)

201 S.E.2d 17

BROWN TRANSPORT COMPANY

v.

PARKER.

48568.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Argued September 6, 1973.

Decided September 26, 1973.

Hopkins & Gresham, H. Lowell Hopkins, for appellant.

Long & Siefferman, Floyd E. Siefferman, Jr., for appellee.

EBERHARDT, Presiding Judge.

F. E. Parker, Jr., a truck driver for Brown Transport Company, and a fellow driver, Marvin Bryant, were assigned a trip from Atlanta to Milwaukee and back by way of Baton Rouge. On the way to Chattanooga the truck was "not running right" and Bryant indicated an intention to return from that point, but was…