Thweatt v. Haefner

The two-lane highway on which the accident in question occurred, U. S. Highway 60 in Mississippi County, Missouri, was “extremely wet” at the time of the collision. Appellant concedes that as he was rounding a curve at “sixty, sixty-five” miles per hour, his eastbound car skidded across the center *735line. Its left rear fin scraped the left side of respondents’ westbound truck. Respondent Irene Thweatt (hereinafter respondent) testified appellant’s car hooked the back bumper of the truck, forcing the truck down a thirty-five to forty foot embankment backwards. Appellant challenges the judgment…