Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Union Transfer & Storage Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

The appellant here was the plaintiff below, and at the conclusion of its evidence, the court peremptorily instructed the jury to return a verdict for the appellee. This litigation grew out of a collision which took place on the night of June 19, 1923, on the Versailles, pike, just outside the city limits of Frankfort in Franklin county, Kentucky.

The appellee, Union Storage and'Transfer Company, was delivering goods of some character to one Lonnie Gardner, whose property is situated immediately upon the north side of the Versailles pike. One…