McGuire v. Steel Transportation Co.

BARRETT, C.

The plaintiff, Nathan McGuire, and another Iowa boy, Hearn, “hitchhiked” a ride in Byron C. Beeson’s 1946 Chevrolet truck. They rode in the truck bed, covered with a tarpaulin, with their heads toward the cab. It was dark and raining and the boys were asleep. The truck was traveling in a northerly direction on concrete Highway 71 By-Pass in Jackson County at a speed of thirty to thirty-five miles an hour. As it proceeded around an upgrade curve the truck was involved in a sides wiping collision with a tractor-trailer traveling' at the same speed in the opposite direction on the…