Illinois Ruan Transport Corp. v. State

Claimant seeks recovery of the sum of $9,650.10 for damages arising out of an accident on August 16, 1965, when one of claimant’s trucks overturned to avoid colliding with a State dump truck.

Thomas Plank testified as follows: He was operating claimant’s tractor and trailer loaded with approximately 8,250 gallons of gasoline, proceeding east on Route 140, a two-lane highway east of Meadowbrook, Madison County, Illinois. It had been raining. He was coming off a hill or grade about 11:20 a.m. when he saw a State dump truck “sitting on the road” about two or three hundred feet ahead and a car…