Anderson v. Alabam Freight Lines

LA PRADE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a - judgment awarding damages to the appellee (plaintiff" below) against appellant, growing out of a motor vehicle accident. Each of the parties was operating large trucks towing trailers. Appellee’s truck weighed, unladen, 20,950 pounds; the trailer, 9,560 pounds, making a combined unladen weight of 30,510 pounds. Both the truck arid trailer were equipped with six wheels. Defendant’s equipment was a semi-trailer tank truck. The speed of both trucks at the-time of the accident was approximately 35 miles per hour. Both parties were guilty of driving in…