Prewitt v. Rutherford

This is a truck-collision case and, since the trial court directed the verdict for defendants at the close of plaintiff’s case, we will view the evidence in the light most favorable to plaintiff.

The accident occurred about 1:30 a. m., on April 19, 1944, on Highway 64, approximately eight miles southwest of Mar-shalltown, Iowa. The paved highway at this point runs diagonally northeast and southwest, but for convenience we will speak of it as a north-south highway. The weather was clear and the pavement was dry. The truck and trailer owned by defendant Laughary and operated by defendant…