Locker v. Sammons Trucking Co.

Plaintiff, Betty Locker, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of Sammons Trucking Company and Birney W. Brown in an action to recover damages for the death of Terrell Craig Milliken.

Just before 6 a.m. on December 10, 1969, Mr. Milliken was driving his vehicle westerly across the Hangman Creek Bridge, near Spokane, on Interstate 90. East of the bridge the road was damp, while the bridge itself was extremely icy. As Milliken proceeded across the bridge, he lost control of his car, hit the left guardrail, and spun around, colliding with the following car driven by Don…