Reddy v. Rex Oil Co.

After verdict directed for defendants, plaintiff appeals from the order denying his motion for new trial.

Defendant Steidl, employe of his codefendant St. Paul Terminal Warehouse Company, near midnight of November 30, 1929, was driving one of its large oil trucks east on University avenue in St. Paul. The atmosphere was clear except for occasional snow flurries. Plaintiff, driving a sedan in the same direction, desired to pass the truck, which was either “straddling” the south rail of the double street car tracks on University avenue or so close to it that the body of the truck overhung that…