Jeck v. McDougall Construction Co.

On the 5th day. of September, 1930, between 7 and 8 p. m., Lester Woolsey was driving westward on the Lincoln Highway between Nevada and Ames in a model A Ford, with the lights on. At a point about a mile west of Nevada, his automobile collided with an. asphalt mixer of the defendant, and he died as-a result of such collision. The mixer is described as a machine for mixing and laying asphalt pavement. It was about 11 feet wide over all; the width on the outside of the two rear wheels being eight feet and three inches. There is what is known as a “cat walk”- around the sides of the machine…