Prout v. Mystic Motor Trans. Co.

The plaintiff was injured when the automobile in which he was riding and which was operated by his chauffeur along a main highway in Littleton at about ten-thirty o’clock on the evening of July 8, 1941, came into collision with the rear of a large oil truck of the defendant which was stopped without lights upon the highway. The plaintiff had a verdict. The defendant excepted to the denial of a motion for a directed verdict.

It was undisputed that the hghts of the truck had been extinguished, that the operator of the truck had parked it upon the right side of the road in order to substitute a…