Cohenour v. Smart

HALLEY, V.C.J.

The parties will be referred to according to the positions they occupied in the lower court. The plaintiff was a resident of Shawnee, Oklahoma. On the morning of December 12, 1946, he was traveling east in his own automobile between Oklahoma City and Shawnee and was about six miles west of Shawnee; there was a traffic jam and the plaintiff, Smart, had slowed down his car, and a truck owned by defendant Cohenour and driven by a man named Yick ran into the rear of plaintiffs car, causing some damage to the car, for which settlement was made. The plaintiff filed an action 13 months…