Cronin v. Shell Oil Co.

At about nine o’clock in the forenoon, December 10, 1937, Robert Smith, an employee of defendant, Shell Oil Company, was driving a gasoline truck belonging to defendant, in an easterly direction on the road which crosses Ebey slough on a mile and a quarter trestle, a short distance east of Everett. The trestle is straight and level, paved with concrete to the width of twenty-four feet, having a rough surface affording good traction, and is not intersected by any other road. The one and a half ton truck was carrying six hundred gallons of gasoline and some lubricating oil, weighing, with its…