Hoerr v. Hanline

One of the defendants below, Donald J. Hoerr, has appealed from a judgment rendered against him for damages sustained by the plaintiff when the plaintiff’s passenger car, which he was driving, collided with the left rear end of defendant’s dump truck, which had been left standing partly on the highway.

The accident occurred on the Aberdeen Proving Grounds on December 1, 1956, at about 6:40 p. m. The evening was dark, and the scene of the collision was in an unlighted area. The highway was straight and level in both directions, with a speed limit thereon of 25 miles per hour. The dump truck had…