Hedberg v. Lester

This is a suit for personal injuries received by the plaintiff and caused by a truck being backed down by the defendant June 11, 1934. The parties were both employed by a construction company in work on Highway No. 28, north of Prole, Iowa. The defendant was a truck driver hauling to a mixer on the work, the plaintiff being foreman employed by the construction company, and who was in charge of and looking after the mixer which mixed the concrete. The road was being laid in a southerly direction. The grade at that point was 5%%, that is, we take it, a fall of five and a half feet per one…