Schlichte v. Franklin Troy Trucks

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves three claimed errors in a trial of a wrongful death action.

The evidence viewed in the most favorable light to the verdict reveals that after dark on October 31, 1975, on a primary highway, defendant Franklin Troy Trucks drove the lime truck of defendant John Robert Hamilton with the latter’s consent, pulling a “pup trailer.” The trailer had no safety chain attaching it to the truck. It became disengaged from the truck, rolled backward, and turned on its side partially off the traveled portion with its long heavy tongue projecting across part of the…