Werner Transp. Co. v. Zimmerman

SWAIM, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Werner Transportation 'Company, brought this action to recover damages resulting from a collision between its tractor-trailer unit and an automobile owned by the defendant Nathan Zimmerman. Negligence of the defendant Gordon Folkers, who was driving the automobile, as the agent of Zimmerman, was alleged to have caused the mishap. The defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company was the insurer on a liability policy held by Zimmerman.

The case was submitted to a jury for a special verdict. The jury found that both Folkers and Oscar B. Colvin, the…