Buck v. Cole

BLACKBIRD, Justice:

This action for damages arose out of a collision between a 1942 Model 2½ Ton GMC tandem-wheeled oil field truck and a 1961 Model Mercury Sedan, on a bridge over which a county road crosses a creek about 3 miles north, and 5 miles east, of Dewey. The Mercury, of which defendant in error (hereinafter referred to as “plaintiff”) was the driver and an owner, had approached the bridge from the west, with plaintiff’s daughter, Mary, and her mother-in-law riding with her as passengers, and was stopped toward the western end of the bridge (which had a width of IS feet) *165when the…