Barrett v. Reed

In these consolidated actions the parties will be referred to as they appeared below.

On August 13, 1957, the plaintiff, Dona Reed, a housewife, sustained personal injuries when the automobile she was driving was struck head-on by another automobile owned by the defendant, Thomas Barrett, and driven by his codefendant, Arthur W. Lindamood, age 15, an unlicensed driver. The accident occurred on the Carden Hollow Road just west of Bluff City, Tennessee, at about 11 o’clock A.M. This road, which has a gravel surface, runs east and west, and was described as being approximately 16 feet wide. It…