Hungate v. Hudson

In this personal injury action by Earl Hungate against Finis B. Hudson the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The circumstances upon which the plaintiff relied as demonstrating liability were that he stopped his 1935 Chevrolet coupe upon the highway while a freight train passed over the intersecting crossing. His was the third car in a line of traffic, and the plaintiff and his witnesses claimed that while he was yet stopped upon the highway the defendant's truck, without warning and at a speed of about forty miles an hour, crashed into the rear of his coupe and knocked it sixty or…