Hughes v. W & S Construction Co.

ROBERTSON, Justice:

James Willis Hughes, Administrator of the Estate of his wife, Edith Rowe Hughes, on behalf of himself and their children, appealed from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Attala County, Mississippi, in *340favor of the Defendant, W & S Construction Company, based upon a jury verdict for the defendant.

About 9:00 P.M., on September 14, 1964, Appellant Hughes and his wife were returning from Starkville, Mississippi, in their 1964 Cadillac Convertible. As he drove through a heavily wooded section of the Natchez Trace, a stray Black Angus cow suddenly loomed up in front of the car.…