Runnion v. Kitts

RAPER, Justice.

It was a late February afternoon when plaintiff-appellant in this case was driving with two passengers on Highway 487 between Casper and Medicine Bow, proceeding south toward the Kerr-MeGee mine site where they were employed. Defendant-appellee Kitts, an employee of the defendant-appellee, Wyoming State Highway Department, was driving a snowplow, mounted on a dump truck, he being assigned to plow and sand Highway 487 in the area of Shirley Rim. He was working in a southerly direction but about to turn around and was headed into an area on the west side of the road where he…