W. S. Fowler Rental Equipment Company v. Skipper

LAWSON, Justice.

This is a personal injury action brought in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County by Wiley E. Skipper against W. S. Fowler Rental Equipment Company, a corporation, and A. E. Burgess Company, Inc., a corporation.

The accident out of which this case arose occurred on March 14, 1958, when a pickup truck in which the plaintiff was riding as a passenger collided with a boom of a drag-line crane which had been left across an open ditch on a new highway then under construction. The new highway was through an area where previously no highway had existed. The place of the accident is in…