Leek v. Dillard

STONE, Judge.

While “it was getting dark” on October 14, 1954, Mrs. Lucie Leek, plaintiff herein, was riding as a guest in the rear seat of a 1950 Ford automobile then being driven by Wilford Redman, one of the defendants herein, in an easterly direction on U. S. Highway 60 en route from Dexter to More-house, Missouri. As the Redman automobile approached “the Wahite bridge” over a drainage ditch about two miles west of Morehouse, defendant Redman observed an automobile (subsequently identified as a 1951 Chevrolet owned by Burtis Dillard, the other defendant herein) standing on the bridge. For…