High-Grade Oil Co., Inc. v. Sommer

MORGAN, Justice.

Appellants filed suit against appellee as a joint tort-feasor for his part in the design and construction of a stretch of U.S. Highway 12 upon which a collision occurred wherein one person was seriously injured. The trial court granted summary judgment followed by summary judgment nunc pro tunc. We affirm.

The facts of the collision are immaterial except that (1) James R. Donovan, in the course of employment by High-Grade Oil Company, Inc., lost control of the vehicle he was driving on a reverse “S” curve which appellants now claim was negligently designed or modified by…