Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc.

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

On the evening of October 10, 1966, James S. Sorey (Sorey) was operating a tractor-trailer rig loaded with 38,000 pounds of heavy equipment and traveling west across Colorado. His destination was Burbank, California, but his fate was such that he would not even reach downtown Pagosa Springs. Upon starting to descend from the top of Wolf Creek Pass, the brakes of his truck became overheated and then caught fire, with the result that Sorey was forced to maneuver his runaway vehicle down and around the hairpin curves that C. W. McCall has memorialized by his folk song…