Inter-City Trucking Co. v. Daniels

Before daylight on the morning of January 10th, 1942, a large truck of the Inter-City Company, proceeding north from Memphis on Highway 51, stalled about one mile south of Millington. It stood partly on the concrete and partly on the shoulder of the roadway. Something more than an hour and a half later, still before daylight, a smaller truck, driven by Onyx Daniels, crashed into the rear of this standing truck. Daniels was so severely injured that he died later that day in a hospital in Memphis. This action was brought by his widow as ad-ministratrix, for the benefit of- herself and three…