Bruce Transfer Co. v. Johnston

Petitioner, Bruce Transfer Company, is an Iowa corporation with its principal place of business in Polk county. As a common carrier it was operating a line of motor vehicle freight trucks of semitrailer type upon a fixed schedule and over a regular route, with Des Moines, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri, as termini. Suit was instituted against petitioner in the district court of Clarke county, Iowa, for damages resulting from a collision between an automobile and one of said trucks travelling over a public highway through said county upon said regular route. Petitioner had no office or agency…