Ryan v. Campbell "66" Express, Inc.

EAGER, Judge.

This is a suit for personal injuries sustained in a collision between a panel truck operated by plaintiff, and a tractor-trailer operated for defendant. The prayer of the-petition was for $75,000. Plaintiff sustained serious injuries, but it will be unnecessary to discuss them here. The accident occurred on Highway 54 about a mile-south of Mexico, Missouri, on July 1, 1952., Plaintiff was working as a route man for a linen supply company of Columbia, Missouri. The petition charged primary negligence in several respects, but the sole-controversy actually tried and submitted was…