Jacksonville Paper Company v. Carlile

In February, 1942, Jacksonville Paper Company loaded one of its trucks at West Palm Beach for the purpose of dispatching it to Okeechobee City in charge of one of its employees. The employee left West Palm Beach with instructions to spend the night at Fort Pierce and proceed from thence to destination the following morning. The next time the loaded truck was heard of, it was parked on the highway some twenty miles or more above Fort Pierce in another direction. It was late in the night and it had no flares or signals to warn the public.

When thus parked, Jesse Carlile, the appellee, while…