Watson v. Travelers Mutual Casualty Co.

*624The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding damages to plaintiff for the death of her husband, who was killed by driving his automobile into the rear end of a heavily loaded truck on a public highway.

The facts which the jury chose to believe were substantially these:

One Ed. T. Kelley was the owner of a two-ton truck. He was engaged in hauling salt from Kanopolis to Salina. Highway No. 40 is paved from Ellsworth eastward to the width of twenty feet with a black line in the center to indicate its two lanes of traffic.

On January 3, 1936,…