West v. L. Bromm Baking Co.

A truck belonging to the L. Bromm Baking Company and operated by its servant, G. M. Duncan, on the highway between Petersburg and Richmond was driven off the traveled portion of the highway to the right for a distance of approximately ninety-nine feet where it struck and killed Dayton Shorter and Eugene W. West, who were standing some thirteen or fourteen feet from the road. In the trial court a verdict and judgment for the defendant resulted.

The defendant’s truck was being driven in a northerly direction. The accident occurred in the afternoon of September 19,1934, at a point on the highway…