Court Opinion

ID: 9581518
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:15:45.123509+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:02.051941
License: Public Domain

Evans, Judge,
concurring in judgment. John S. Helms, a minor, filed an action against C. O. Blankenship, Frances D. Young, Roy *353Morgan and Strain Poultry Farms, Inc., as defendants, alleging he had suffered personal injuries for which defendants were liable. Complaint alleged that plaintiff was driving a motor vehicle on U. S. Highway 27 (a two-lane highway), and as he approached a curve and a grade (or slope), a tractor-trailer was parked lengthwise across the highway completely blocking both lanes of traffic, with which truck plaintiffs car collided, as a result of the negligence of the defendants. It was alleged that the tractor-trailer was being operated by Blankenship, and was owned by Young and Morgan; and that Blankenship was at the time acting within the scope of his employment as an agent, servant and employee of Young, Morgan, and Strain Poultry Farms, Inc. Motions for summary judgment were made by and granted to Strain Poultry Farms, Inc., and Frances D. Young, absolving them of liability, and plaintiff appeals. The suit remains pending in the court below as to the defendants Blankenship and Morgan. The majority of this court affirms.
I restated the case in my own language, as I could thus better understand it than through the use of the scorecard or program set forth by the majority opinion, listing the players as: driver — hauler — truck owner — subsidiary corporation — parent company — by-stander. With this better understanding I concur in the judgment only.