Hackman v. Beckwith

— On November 20, 1952, plaintiff’s decedent, Clem Hackman, was employed as a truck driver by the Diamond Transportation System, Inc. He was forty-five years of age, in good health, and had a life expectancy of 25.21 years. In the late afternoon of the date in question he drove a semitrailer outfit belonging to his employer, loaded with four farm tractors, eastward from Charles City on Highway No. 18. The truck and tractor combined weighed about 37,000 pounds, and were about forty-five feet in length. About eight miles east of Charles City the highway crosses the tracks of the Milwaukee…