Watts Ex Rel. Watts v. Handley

MAUGHMER, Commissioner.

This case grew out of an automobile collision. On the morning of July 38, 1963, the plaintiff, Nancy Jo Watts, then 16 years old, was driving her mother’s 1959 Ford station wagon west on U. S. Highway 40 and near its intersection with Highway 71 By-Pass in Jackson County, Missouri. Highway 40 at that location was a one way (west) roadway. The defendant, James Handley, was then and there operating a 1957 tractor trailer truck in the same direction, but somewhat to the rear of the Ford. The truck was owned by the defendant, Vance Brothers, Inc., and Handley was that…