Fruit v. Schreiner

OPINION

Before BONEY, C. J., and RABINO-WITZ, CONNOR and BOOCHEVER, JJ. BOOCHEVER, Justice.

This case arises from a tragic accident in which the appellee, John Schreiner, was crushed between his parked automobile and the colliding vehicle owned and driven by the appellant, Clay Fruit. As a result of the accident, Schreiner’s left leg was amputated and the muscle tissue of the right leg so destroyed as to leave him crippled and permanently disabled.

At the time of the accident, Fruit, a life insurance salesman, was attending a sales convention of his employer, Equitable Life Assurance Society…