Lockie v. Pence

Early in the morning of January 29, 1933, the defendant, with an employee, was proceeding north on the Golden State highway in a truck loaded with four tons of oranges. Shortly before 2 o’clock and when they were about 200 yards north of the northerly limits of the city of Selma, the rear axle on the truck broke, the rear end dropped to the pavement and the truck suddenly stopped with its left wheels from two to four feet east or to the right of the white line in the center of the highway. The highway at that point consisted of a pavement twenty feet in width, with shoulders twenty-four feet…