Nielsen v. Wessels

Bliss, J.-

Plaintiff, a man twenty-nine years old, had been employed to pull house trailers behind a motor vehicle, identified by the U. S. Army as a quarter-ton jeep, rigged especially for that purpose, from the factory at Flint, Michigan, to various destinations. On this trip he was pulling a 31-foot Palace Coach house trailer, eight feet wide, to Shoshone, Wyoming. On April 18, 1952, after driving since early morning, he stopped and slept a few hours just west of Waterloo, and then proceeded on his journey in the late afternoon, in a westerly direction on paved Highway No. 20 to about seven…