Humble Oil & Refining Company v. Lane

Caplan, Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in a civil action instituted on September 12, 1966, in the Circuit Court of Jackson County. The action resulted from a collision between the plaintiff’s tractor-trailer and the defendants’ two-ton flat-bed truck.

According to the testimony appearing in the record, the collision occurred on U. S. 21 in Jackson County, West Virginia on April 29, 1964, at approximately 6:45 A.M. The plaintiff’s vehicle, driven by Glenville Taylor, was travel-ling in a northerly direction and the defendants’ truck, operated by defendant Walter Lane, was…