Carstensen v. Thomsen

— This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries inflicted upon appellee when appellant’s truck, which he was driving, struck him in a public highway. At the time of the accident, appellee was standing in the highway by a Chevrolet coach conversing with some parties seated therein. His injuries were severe and some of them, perhaps, permanent.

Appellee resides on the north side of primary highway No. 5, which extends east and west, in Buena Vista county. This highway is improved by graveling, the graveled portion thereof being twenty-eight feet in width. The private driveway of…