L. H. Young v. C. L. Vincent, D/B/A Vincent Trucking Company, Ennis Lee Hemphill, and Superior Insurance Company, a Corporation

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant filed this action as one for damages arising from a motor vehicle collision between a passenger automobile driven by plaintiff and a stalled truck owned by the defendant trucking company, operated by its employee Hemphill, and insured by the defendant insurance company. The cause was duly removed to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas where, at the conclusion of plaintiff’s case, the trial court held that plaintiff’s own testimony precluded his recovery as a matter of law on the basis of contributory negligence and directed a…