Century '21' Shows and Kenneth Wayne O'Guin v. Charles W. Owens

GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

On August 1, 1965 about noon the plaintiff Charles W. Owens, while operating his motorcycle on U. S. Highway 218, approximately 2% miles south of LaPorte City, Iowa, in Benton County, was hit or sideswiped in his own southbound lane by a 1962 GMC pickup truck owned by the defendant Century “21” Shows and operated by its employee, defendant Kenneth Wayne O’Guin. A judgment based on a jury verdict for $85,000 was entered for plaintiff and the defendants appeal. This is a diversity case, Century being a Florida corporation and O’Guin a resident of Tennessee. The substantive…