Wedel v. Johnson

Loring, Justice.

Shortly after nine o’clock p. m. on June 12, 1934, plaintiff, while driving his automobile in a southerly direction on trunk highway No. 15, at a point about a mile and a half north of the city limits of Fairmont, collided with the body of a horse which had been struck and killed by the defendant Foster, who was driving a truck which he had borrowed from the defendants Johnson and Baarts. . The horse was left lying on the southbound or west lane of the pavement, where it was struck by plaintiff’s car.

This suit was brought against Johnson and Baarts, the owners 'of the truck,…