[DOWNLOAD] "Fannin v. Lewis" by Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Fannin v. Lewis
- Author : Court Of Appeals Of Kentucky
- Release Date : January 26, 1951
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 44 KB
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CAMMACK, Chief Justice. Vance Lewis, age 10, was injured when an automobile in which he was riding and which was being driven by Cecil Fannin, Jr., turned over on a gravel highway just out of Sandy Hook. The court directed the jury to find for the boy and they returned a verdict of $3,000 in his favor. We are asked to reverse the judgment on the grounds that (1) the court should not have instructed the jury peremptorily to find for the plaintiff; and (2) counsel for the plaintiff committed reversible error by injecting the insurance question into the case in his closing argument. As Fannin was going into Sandy Hook from his farm, in his 1941 Pontiac, he picked up his sister and her husband and his nephew, the plaintiff, and a man by the name of Manning. As Fannin was returning with his passengers along a straight stretch of gravel road, which had a gradual descent, his car left the highway and turned over, thereby injuring the plaintiff. The only conflict in the evidence related to the speed of the car and as to whether any of the occupants protested to Fannin in regard to the speed. He said he was driving around 40 to 45 miles an hour, and, when asked the cause of the accident, his answer was: 'I would say the tie rod or the gravel.' Other occupants of the car said he was driving around 55 miles an hour. Fannin said also that his sister asked him to slow down.