State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. Sharpensteen

DAVISON, Justice:

This is an appeal by State of Oklahoma, ex rel. Department of Highways of the State of Oklahoma (plaintiff below) from a judgment rendered, in a trial to the court, in favor of Jack D. Sharpensteen, d/b/a S & S Materials Company, and his employee, Richard Laverne Timmons (defendants below), denying plaintiff any recovery in its action against defendants for damage to a bridge, allegedly caused when Timmons drove a tractor truck with a dump trailer, owned by Sharpensteen, upon the bridge and a span of the bridge collapsed.

At the time of rendering judgment for the defendants,…