Claussen v. Estate of Johnson

On March 21, 1936, at about 7:30 p. m., a Ford automobile being driven south on combined Primary Highways 30 and 75 collided, first with a nonmoving trailer attached to a Dodge automobile, and then with a truck that was traveling north. This occurrence was at a point about 7 miles south of Missouri Valley. The highway was straight and level for miles in either direction. The four occupants of the Ford lost their lives in this catastrophe so immediately upon its happening that none spoke afterwards. One of the travelers in the Ford was W. B. Johnson, owner of the car. Against his estate a…