Schneider v. Prentzler

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

This is a circumstantial evidence case of collision between a westbound dump truck driven by plaintiff’s deceased husband and an eastbound pickup truck driven by defendant’s intestate upon Highway 5 in Howard County, Missouri. The question is whether there was a sufficiency of such evidence to justify a finding that defendant’s intestate was upon his wrong side of the road and thus proximately caused the death of plaintiff’s husband. Both drivers died as a result of the collision. The wife of defendant’s intestate (Kenneth Lee Prentzler) was a passenger in the pickup…