Colvin v. Auto Interurban Co.

Appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in a personal injury suit.

Early in the evening of a certain day, but after darkness had fallen, the plaintiff was driving his truck westerly along one of the paved highways of eastern Washington. More or less snow was falling. The truck was loaded with a large steel tank, some chains and other similar equipment. From the noise he heard and from the fact that he had been traveling over some rough road, the driver thought he was about to lose his load or part of it. He pulled his truck off the pavement as far as it was safe for him to do and…