Painter v. Knaus Truck Lines, Inc.

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

In this personal injury action, which is the result of an automobile-truck collision, defendant appeals from a judgment for plaintiff based upon the verdict of a jury •in the amount of $24,500.

Inasmuch as defendant first complains that plaintiff made no submissible case on her sole theory that defendant, by its driver, Kern, failed to keep its westbound truck on the north half of the east-west highway, but instead drove it onto the south half of the highway when the eastbound Valiant automobile operated by plaintiff was approaching so closely as to constitute an…