Reiten v. Hendricks

AREND, Justice.

Roy Hendricks, as plaintiff below, filed suit on January 14, 1957, against Alaska Freight Lines, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Alaska Freight), for damages to, and loss of earnings of, his truck and lowboy in the sum of $6,745.60. He had loaned the equipment to the defendants Reiten and Stewart, joint venturers, who were using it on November 9, 1956, the time of the incurrence of &e damages, to transport a front end loader on an Alaska highway. The damages to plaintiff’s equipment are alleged to have resulted from a collision between it and a motor van owned by the defendant…