Yonker v. Williams

This case grows out of an automobile accident which happened between ten-thirty and eleven o’clock on Sunday night, May 3, 1936, on the Lee highway, about five miles north of the city of Roanoke, Virginia.

A Ford coupe owned and driven by William R. Yonker, the plaintiff in error, who will hereafter be referred to as Yonker, collided with the rear of a truck owned by E. Edwin Michael, which was in charge of and operated by Earl Spiker and his helper, Daniel G. Sager. The supply of gas of the truck had given out and it had been stopped on the right-hand lane of the three lane highway, known as…