Jack v. Browne

Defendant below appeals from a judgment awarding plaintiff damages for injury sustained by reason of defendant’s negligence.

The evidence summarized shows that as plaintiff drove his truck with house trailer at a speed of 35 to 40 miles per hour across a bridge some six feet less in width than the oiled surface of the road on either end of the bridge, appellant, driving his pickup truck at 65 miles per hour, attempted to pass plaintiff’s vehicle, and in so doing the pickup truck struck the left rear of the trailer house causing damage to both the trailer house and its contents. As the value of…