Cone Brothers Contracting Co. v. Allbrook

CHAPMAN, J.:

On February 5, 1943, John William Allbrook, age 33, a truck driver, was killed at Henderson Airport in Hillsborough County, in a collision with a truck the deceased was driving and one driven by Earnest C. Tanner. The truck drivers were employed by Cone Brothers Contracting Company, and the decedent at the time was paid $45.00 per week.

The appellant had employed some eleven trucks engaged in hauling rock from a car siding approximately four miles to the east end of an east-west runway at the airport. The loaded trucks were driven east, while the unloaded trucks traveled west.…