Meyers v. Southern Builders, Inc.

CROW, Presiding Judge.

On September 24, 1996, Martyn G. Meyers, age 43, was operating a motorcycle southbound on Glenstone Avenue in Springfield. Lance S. Wheelis, an employee of Southern Builders, Inc. (“SBI”), was operating a truck northbound on Glen-stone. Wheelis turned west into a construction area where he was working. In that maneuver, Wheelis’s truck crossed the southbound lane in front of Meyers’s motorcycle. The vehicles collided.

Meyers sued Wheelis and SBI for bodily injuries Meyers allegedly sustained in the collision. The parties stipulated that at the time of the collision,…