Langner v. Caviness

Plaintiff’s truck and the truck of defendant Caviness, driven by defendant Woolums, were engaged in hauling crushed rock on a road-surfacing project for Jefferson county. They collided in daylight on a dirt road. Plaintiff’s empty truck was going north to the quarry, up a hill about eleven hundred feet long. The Caviness truck, loaded with five to six tons of rock, was going south down the hill. The slope or grade of the hill varied from seven to eleven per cent. The trucks collided about two hundred fifty feet south of the top of the hill.

The traveled portion of the road in the general…