Ehrhardt v. Ruan Transport Corp.

— This collision on Highway 13 about 8 miles north of Manchester, Iowa, occurred on December 14,19'48, about 3 or 3:30 p.m. The plaintiff Edward H. Ehrhardt was operating a 1947 Chevrolet 1% ton truck owned by his employer, the plaintiffs Edward F. Hopton and Gene Hopton, d/b/a Cedar Rapids Renderers, loaded with about a ton of deceased cattle and hogs, when it collided with defendant Ruan Transport Corporation’s tractor-trailer carrying some 5000 gallons of gasoline and weighing about 55,000 pounds, operated by defendant Robert Wayne Scott. The Renderers’ truck was southbound and the Ruan…