State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Herrin Transportation Co.

GLADNEY, Judge.

This suit was instituted by State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company as subrogee of its insured, Leonard C. Pratt, Jr., and is for the recovery of the sum of $161.42 for property damage sustained. Made defendants are Herrin Transportation Company and the driver of its truck, Thomas L. Bryan. From a judgment favorable to plaintiff, defendants have appealed.

This action sounding in tort arises from an occurrence on June 11, 1960, at approximately 8:45 P.M. At that time plaintiff’s insured was operating his Studebaker Lark automobile in a southerly direction on U.S. Highway…