Pacific Trailways v. Southwest Roofing Co.

The plaintiff commenced this action against the defendants, E. W. Dallimore, dba Southwest Eoofing Company, and Eoy Venable,, to recover damages to a passenger bus, the personal property of the plaintiff. Damage to the bus was occasioned on January 4, 1952, when the defendant Eoy Venable, operating his own pickup truck partially loaded with sheetrock obtained at the Nyssa Lumber Company yard, drove into the bus of the plaintiff. There is no contention made but that Venable was negligent, and his negligence was the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s damages.

The defendant Venable was in default…