Oliver Trucking Co. v. Harris

CHARLES M. ALLEN, Special Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in favor of the appellees following the submission by the trial court to the jury of the issue of appellees’ negligence and the contributory negligence of appellant’s driver. The jury found the appellees to be free from negligence and did not express an opinion on the contributory negligence issue.

At about 12:30 a. m. on March 27, 1967, a tractor-trailer truck owned by appellant and driven by Richard Miles collided on US Highway 42 a few miles east of Car-rollton with cattle owned by…