Pioneer Construction Company v. Bergeron

This case arises out of an automobile accident on a rainy July afternoon on Interstate 25 south of the Air Force Academy. The evidence was that a passenger car traveling toward Colorado Springs on the south-bound portion of the highway skidded on rainslick, newly laid asphalt, went out of control and bounded over the median strip onto the north-bound lane where it collided with a heavy tractor trailer rig. In the passenger car were Eva M. Bergeron, who was severely injured, her mother, Mrs. Sandefur, and her sister, Mrs. Barbara Burton, both of whom were fatally injured.

Suit for damages was…