East Texas Motor Freight Lines, Inc. v. Freeman

Steele Hays, Justice.

At about 6 o’clock on the evening of June 15, 1981 eleven vehicles collided in dense smoke along a stretch of Interstate Highway 55 in Crittenden County, Arkansas. Earlier that day farm workers of Clifford Gillespie set fire to a wheat field being prepared for soybean planting. The wheat field was to the east of the highway and the smoke carried to the west, primarily affecting north bound traffic.

Appellee Ellen Freeman was driving her car in a north bound lane with her daughter, Denise Clark, and her grandson Cliff Tullos, Jr., who are also appellees, riding as…