Oesterle v. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.

This is a damage suit for personal injuries caused by a collision between plaintiff’s automobile and defendant’s vehicle consisting of a tractor and trailer. Plaintiff was driving south on U. S. Highway 61. A light snow was falling. ' Near Bonne Terre the highway comes from the south curving down a hill. Plaintiff saw defendant’s vehicle some 300 feet away, approaching him. Defendant’s driver saw plaintiff when he was about 500 feet away. Bach continued on in the proper lane. When they were about 25 feet apart the tractor abruptly turned onto plaintiff’s lane, struck the front of plaintiff’s…