Hook v. Dorsam

— This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Warrick Circuit Court on a jury verdict of eighteen thousand ($18,000.00) dollars which was returned in an action brought by appellee as administratrix of the estate of Clipsy Frank Dorsam, deceased, for the wrongful death of the deceased and for property damage to a truck owned by said Dorsam.

The litigation was commenced in the lower court when the appellee filed a complaint which alleged, in part, that appellant Crooks, agent of appellant Hook, carelessly and negligently drove a truck across the center line of U. S. Highway 41 into the path…