Wood v. Hallenbarter

This action grows out of a collision which occurred August 8, 1940, on the Tacoma-Sumner highway, between a loaded logging truck and trailer, owned by plaintiffs and driven by plaintiff D. B. Wood, and a Plymouth sedan, owned and driven by defendant, Hallenbarter. The truck was traveling westerly toward Tacoma; the sedan, easterly toward Sumner. The accident occurred on a curve. After the collision, the sedan came to rest in the middle of the highway, and the truck and trailer, with its load, came to rest in a field on the southerly side of the highway; in other words, the truck and trailer…