Rowley v. Graven Brothers & Company

CROCKETT, Justice:

Plaintiff, Arthur Rowley, an independent contract trucker, sued defendant Graven Brothers Construction Company for injuries he suffered when some large pipes he had hauled from the defendant’s yard in Flagstaff, Arizona, rolled off his trailer while being unloaded in defendant’s yard in Salt Lake City. Upon trial a jury answered special verdicts submitted to them: that the defendant was negligent which proximately contributed to cause the plaintiff’s injury, but that the plaintiff was himself similarly guilty of contributory negligence. Accordingly, a judgment of no cause of…