Thompson v. Peterson

Knutson, Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant entered pursuant to an order of the trial court granting defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict of a jury in favor of plaintiff.

The facts are not seriously in dispute. Defendant is employed by the state highway department as a truck operator. On December 15, 1948, at about 11:15 a. m., he was driving a two-ton state highway truck on trunk highw'ay No. 371 about nine miles north of Brainerd, in this state, engaged in sanding the highway. At that time it was sleeting and raining, and the sleet and rain froze as…