Steelman v. Lind

OPINION

By the Court,

Batjer, J.:

The appellant, Louis P. Steelman, filed this action against respondent Rulon Lind for personal injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

On July 28, 1976, Steelman, an on-duty Nevada Highway Patrol trooper, was called to Interstate Highway 15, in Clark County, Nevada, where Lind was attempting to reload a trailer with beehives filled with live bees which had slipped off the trailer onto the roadway. Steelman positioned his highway patrol vehicle, with red lights flashing, some distance behind the Lind vehicle and trailer, placed flares on the roadway to warn…