Mott v. Hillman

The sole question in this appeal is whether the trial court was justified in directing a verdict for the defendants because of lack of evidence of negligence on their part.

The facts, which are not disputed, are as follows: A truck being operated by the plaintiff’s decedent in an easterly direction on a four-lane highway in the daytime on a dry pavement collided with the defendants’ truck which was being driven in the opposite di rection. No eyewitnesses to the collision testified, and the plaintiff relied upon the physical situation presented after the collision to sustain her cause of…