Grocers Wholesale Cooperative, Inc. v. Nussberger Trucking Co.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves problems relating to admissibility of evidence and answers to special interrogatories, in an action growing out of a collision of two trucks.

Plaintiff owned the cargo in a truck headed north on the early morning of February 24, 1969, on United States Highway 69 in Wright County, Iowa. Defendant Nussberger owned a truck, operated by defendant Patovisti and leased for the trip to defendant Pre-Fab, headed south at the same time and place. For brevity we will refer to the vehicles as “plaintiff’s truck” and “defendants’ truck”. Defendants’ truck came…