Indiana State Highway Com'n v. Clark

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Lowdermilk, J. —

Defendant-appellant State of Indiana, Indiana State Highway Commission (State), appeals from a judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee Glenda M. Clark, which was rendered on a wrongful death action.

FACTS

During the years of 1967 and 1968 the State constructed a stretch of highway on Interstate 70 near the Mt. Comfort Road interchange. Defendants-appellees S. J. Groves and Sons and Denton Construction Company had contracted to place the concrete pavement and the highway sub-base respectively. Defendant-appellee Vollmer Associates was the engineering…