Schweidler v. Caruso

This controversy results from a collision between an Oldsmobile passenger automobile driven by John W. Earl and owned by Richard Schweidler, who was riding in it at the time, and a one-and-one-half ton Dodge delivery truck driven by Sam F. Caruso, on a north-south, straight, stretch of roadway on Highway 51, about a mile out of Edgerton toward Madison on the afternoon of September 6, 1951. The road was of concrete, 20 feet in width, and shoulders six to seven-and-a-half-feet wide extended from the pavement. Both vehicles were traveling in a northerly direction. The truck was ahead of the…