(DOWNLOAD) "Hubbard v. Allen" by Supreme Court of Kansas # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hubbard v. Allen
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 28, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This was an action for damages sustained in a collision of two trucks. Defendant appeals from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. For convenience we shall throughout the opinion refer to the parties as they appeared in the court below. Briefly stated, the petition alleged that plaintiff, in the daytime, was driving his truck, which was equipped with a rotary water drill, westwardly on a highway west of Ulysses, and that defendant was driving a one and one-half ton truck on the same highway in the same direction; that plaintiff desired to pass the defendant and signaled his intention to do so and crossed to the left side of the highway and as he drove alongside of defendant's truck defendant drove his truck over the center line of the highway, forcing plaintiff to drive to the left and on to the shoulder to avoid a collision, and while so proceeding and when plaintiff was slightly ahead of defendant, defendant gave a signal to make a left turn; that plaintiff increased his speed to avoid a collision but that defendant, while looking in the opposite direction, turned the left front portion of his truck into the right side of plaintiff's truck, causing it to turn over completely,