Orr v. Williams

DEW, Special Commissioner.

The plaintiff sued to recover damages to his tractor and trailer caused when they were overturned upon contacting a steel cable stretched across the highway. The defendants had stretched the cable while engaged in pulling a stalled car from a ■ditch on the roadside. The jury rendered .a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $8,-735, and defendants have appealed.

The petition alleges that at all such times defendant Williams was the agent and employee of the defendant Beckman and acting in the scope of his employment; that plaintiff was on December 20, 1960, the…