Bramel v. Utah State Road Commission

CROCKETT, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff truck driver, William B. Brooks, sues for personal injuries, and plaintiff truck owner, Paul Bramel sues for property damages, sustained when a truck-trailer loaded with 40,000 pounds of cucumbers traveling northward failed to make a sharp curve at the temporary end of Interstate Highway 1-15 near its approach to 31st Street in Ogden and overturned.1 Upon issues joined: (1) as to the defendant Road Commission’s negligence in failing to post adequate warning signs for traffic approaching the temporary end of the freeway, and (2) the plaintiff-driver’s…