Herndon v. Mississippi Forestry Commission

BARNES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. On October 20, 2005, H.K. Herndon Jr. was driving through a dense, early-morning fog on Highway 53 in Poplarville, Mississippi. At the same time, Jimmy D. Bond, an employee of the Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC), was operating an MFC transport truck and, not seeing Herndon’s vehicle, pulled onto Highway 53 from the driveway of the MFC’s field office. Unable to avoid the MFC truck, Herndon crashed his vehicle into the rear tires of the transport truck. Herndon, along with his wife, Myrna J. Herndon, filed a complaint alleging that the MFC and Bond were…