Teague v. United Truck Service

BARNES, Justice.

This appeal arose out of an action brought by the above named Appellant against the above named Appellees to recover damages allegedly sustained in a collision between his 1960-Model Mercury Station Wagon and a 1967-Model “bob-tailed” White diesel tandem truck owned and/or operated by Appellees. The parties will hereinafter be referred to by surname and/or trial court designations of “plaintiff” and “defendants”.

Just before the collision, at about 4:30 p. m., of a rainy October day, the truck, driven in a southerly direction by the defendant Johnson, came up behind plaintiff’s…