Condos v. Associated Transports, Inc.

BRUCE NORMILE, Special Judge.

In this case plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer unit operated on defendant’s behalf. Plaintiff received a verdict and judgment in the amount of $10,000.00. Defendant appeals.

The accident in which plaintiff was injured occurred at about nine o’clock a. m. on June 12, 1964, a clear, dry day, on U.S. Highway 66, at the northwest edge, of St. Clair, Missouri. At that point, the highway runs generally east and west. The two westbound lanes are divided from the' two eastbound lanes by a grassy median. Each westbound…