Harper v. Dooley

Johnson, Judge.

Clay Brunson was killed when the pickup truck he was driving struck logs extending from the back of a log truck. The log truck was parked in the turn lane of a public highway, at night, waiting for a paper mill to open early the next morning. After parking at the end of a line of other log trucks already waiting for the plant to open, Larry Mathis took down the red “pole light” hanging from the end of his logs, and went to sleep in the truck’s cab until he was awakened by the collision. Mathis had not activated any other warning markers or lights, though he was required to do…