Grimes v. Richfield Oil Co.

AMES, J., pro tem.

This is an action for personal injury. The negligence upon which the action is predicated, as disclosed by the allegations in the complaint and the evidence in support thereof, consists of defendant’s failure to maintain lights upon the rear end of a combination of vehicles, consisting of a truck and trailer, which, it is claimed, was standing on the paved or improved portion of a public highway before sunrise, during the early morning hours of the day of the accident.

The testimony of the respondent may be summarized as follows: That on the fifteenth day of March, 1928, he…