Ackley v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co.

CHRISTENSON, District Judge.

This is an action for personal injuries and property damages brought by plaintiff, whose truck collided with a tractor-trailer unit operated by the defendant, Carl L. Larson, for the corporate defendants. The defendant, Watson Bros. Transportation Co., Inc., interposed a counterclaim for damages to the equipment belonging to it.

The plaintiff claims that the driver of defendants’ vehicle was negligent in parking the tractor-trailer on the paved or traveled portion of the highway and in failing to place flares warning approaching traffic of the presence of the…