Duty v. Gunter

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This case involves an action for damages arising out of a truck and automobile collision.

Appellee, G. E. Gunter, brought suit in Circuit Court alleging that as he was driving his 1959 pickup truck in an easterly direction along U. S. Highway 64 between Russellville and Morrilton in a careful and prudent manner and at a reasonable rate of speed, the appellant, while trying to pass him traveling in the same direction, drove his automobile into appellee’s truck demolishing the truck and injuring appellee.

Appellant, W. B. Duty, and Mrs. Duty filed counterclaims…