Withers v. Pettit

WESTHUES, Presiding Judge.

On the morning of April 10, 19S8, at about 10 o’clock, plaintiff Ross Withers and five other men were riding in a station wagon going north on Highway No. 71. When they reached a point about a mile south of Harrisonville, Withers, the driver, stopped the station wagon to permit a truck, also heading north, to make a right turn onto a side road. About the time the station wagon came to a stop or a second or two thereafter, defendants’ truck also going north (with defendant Pettit driving) collided with the rear of the station wagon which in turn “bumped” the small…