Glenda Faye Owens v. Carl Kelley

WILSON, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Late at night on May 26, 2005, Laura Wilburn turned out in front of an eighteen-wheeler tractor-trailer that was hauling lumber north on. Highway 7 between Oxford and Holly Springs. The truck’s driver, Willie Taylor, was unable to avoid Wilburn’s car, and two of Wilburn’s grandsons, who were in the backseat of her car, suffered serious injuries in the collision. This is a negligence action ■brought on behalf of one of the grandsons against Taylor and his employer. The basic issue at trial was whether Wilburn was entirely to blame for the wreck or Taylor was also…