Hutchinson v. Knowles

The action is tort for personal injuries received in an automobile accident, and the case is here on plaintiff’s exceptions. At the time of the accident, and for some days before, the parties together with, several others were employed on a highway construction job hauling gravel in auto-trucks. At the place where the accident occurred the highway runs north and south, descends to the south, and is very winding. Defendant was going north with a load of gravel; plaintiff was traveling in the opposite direction with an empty truck. Plaintiff testified that when he first saw defendant they were…