Stevens v. Gear

— The collision between plaintiff’s self-driven auto and defendant Fonken’s truck (driven by defendant Gear) occurred at about six p.m., October 17, 1945, on U. S. Highway 63, approximately eleven miles north of Bloomfield, Iowa. Plaintiff was proceeding in a southerly direction, upgrade from the Soap Creek bridge. The truck was northbound.

Plaintiff, Dr. H. L. Stevens, had practiced medicine many years in Floris (a town near the scene of the collision) and in Ottumwa, Iowa; had retired for a short time in 1944, after fifty years of practice; but had returned to Floris to the practice in…