Arkansas Best Freight System v. Hillis

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Arkansas Best Freight System, Inc., and Daniel L. Thompson, driver for ABF, appeal from a judgment awarded E. B. Hillis for injuries and damages resulting from a collision between trucks driven by Thompson and Hillis. Appellants’ principal attack is on the sufficiency of the evidence. The amount of the verdict, the denial of their motion for a directed verdict, and the propriety of one instruction are also questioned.

Thompson was pulling a forty-foot trailer containing 42,000 pounds of explosives. It was January 21, 1967, at approximately 7:15 a.m. He was headed east on U.…