Robinson v. American Ice Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Kephart,

Plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment in an action of trespass for negligence, and defendant appeals. Appellee, an employee of the American Engineering Company, while riding on the left front step of a Ford truck, property of his employer, was knocked to the ground and severely injured by defendant’s ice wagon. The truck was being operated on a one-way, fifteen-foot, private road in his employer’s plant. The driver of the truck, on nearing a left turn in the road, observed the ice wagon team proceeding at a fast trot to the same turn from the opposite…