Scott v. Nash

RUARK, Presiding Judge.

This is another near-head-on collision in which each party contends the other was on the wrong side of the road. The jury found against plaintiff Scott on her petition and in favor of defendant Geraldine Nash on her counterclaim. Thereafter the court sustained plaintiff’s motion for new trial, and defendants have appealed.

The collision occurred south of Rolla on a straight (north and south) farm-to-market gravel road. At the scene of the collision the road, going south, climbs up out of a valley on a long, steep hill. Once over the crest of the hill, the grade, coming…