Newell Contracting Co. v. Berry

Plaintiff, while approaching the city of Florence from the north in his car at night on the public road known as the “Jackson Highway,” ran into defendant’s truck which had been left on the roadway and received serious injuries. Hence this suit.

The negligence relied upon was the violation of the statute requiring that a vehicle parked upon a highway whether attended or unattended during the period from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise shall have displayed thereon one or more lamps projecting a white light in front and a red light in the rear. Gen. Acts 1927, pp. 348,…