Wilkey v. Rouse Construction Co.

This is an action to recover damages for the destruction of plaintiff’s automobile alleged to have been the result of defendant’s failure to place barriers and warning signals at a place on the State highway where a bridge was being constructed and a detour commenced. The petition charged that defendant corporation was engaged as contractor by the State Highway Commission to construct concrete roads and bridges on State Highway No. 16, in Stoddard county, and on the -- day of October, 1926, was engaged in rebuilding a bridge on said highway at Wahite; that the highway was in use at that,…