Stafford v. Freightways, Inc.

REEVES, Chief Judge.

On the early morning, of August 16, 1952, at about 3:45, an accident or a collision occurred on Highway No. 40, running in a general easterly and westerly *905direction between Kansas City, and St. Louis, about one mile east of Bates City, Missouri, and approximately thirty miles east of Kansas City, Missouri. The tractor-trailer truck of the defendants was proceeding eastwardly and collided with a standing automobile on the eastbound traffic lane, in which several children were riding as passengers. They were sleeping. The collision resulted in the death of the young son of…