Werner Transportation Co. v. Barts

The jury’s verdict was based upon testimony that indicated that, at the time of the accident, Barts was either stopped on the highway or proceeding at a very low speed, that his headlights were either not burning at all or were extremely dim, and that the taillights were not functioning.

The trial judge instructed that:

“A safety statute provides that no person shall operate a vehicle upon a highway during hours of darkness unless • all headlamps, tail lamps, and clearance lamps with which such vehicle is required to be equipped are lighted, and are reasonably clean and in proper working order…