Baker v. Shaw

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. About 3 o’clock in the afternoon of July 1, 1937, the defendant’s agent, J. T. Marshall, headed in a southerly direction on State Highway No. 48, driving a Ford V-8 delivery truck, collided with a Chevrolet gravel truck, the property of the plaintiff. After a jury trial the court entered judgment on the verdict for the plaintiff for $2,500.

At the time of the accident the plaintiff was engaged with others in a highway project about 7Vz miles south of Ada, on Highway No. 48, and was between the signs posted about 100 yards…