Beggs v. Stalnaker

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This suit involves personal injuries and property damage sustained by a driver and personal injuries sustained by a passenger in a car hit from the rear by a truck.

On June 17,1962, appellee Lucille Smith was driving-east on East Broadway Street in North Little Rock when she and the two cars ahead of hers stopped to permit another car to turn left off the street. Her mother, appellee Bertie Stalnaker, was a passenger. Appellant Carl Beggs, who was driving a dump truck, apparently had brake failure, was unable1 to stop and ran into the rear of appellees’ stopped…