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KLECKNER v. GREAT AMERICAN INDEMNITY CO.

257 Wis. 574 (1950)

KLECKNER, Appellant, vs. GREAT AMERICAN INDEMNITY COMPANY and another, Respondents. MID-STATE SERVICE, INC., Respondent, vs. KLECKNER and another, Appellants: SHANKS and another, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

November 8, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants there was a brief by Stafford & Stafford, attorneys, and Robert F. Pfiffner of counsel, all of Chippewa Falls, and oral argument by Mr. Pfiffner.

For the respondents there was a brief by Frank L. Morrow of Eau Claire, for the Great American Indemnity Company and Kenneth T. Shanks, and Emery & Woodside of Marshfield, for the Mid-State Service, Inc., and oral argument by Mr. Morrow and Mr. Robert E. Emery.

GEHL, J.

The accident happened on October 20, 1948. E. L. Kleckner was driving his car in a northerly direction on Highway 29, a concrete highway. He was going downgrade and intending to turn left into a side road extending west from Highway 29. He looked into his rear-view mirror and saw the tractor-trailer driven by Kenneth T. Shanks approaching at a distance of eight hundred to one thousand feet.

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