Newman v. BROWN

Stukes, Justice.

This is an unusual negligence case. The defendants, now appellants, admit liability and, in effect, concede that the common carrier truck of the defendant Brown was negligently parked and, unoccupied, rolled into and against plaintiff’s automobile, which was also unoccupied. It was crushed between the large truck and the concrete loading platform against which it was parked, and its front and rear ends were demolished. The codefendant is Brown’s public liability insurance carrier. The only issue submitted to the trial jury was the amount of actual damages suffered by plaintiff…