WEST v. JACK COOPER TRANSPORT COMPANY

No. 23625.

372 S.W.2d 642 (1963)

Louis R. WEST, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. JACK COOPER TRANSPORT COMPANY, a corporation, and Stephen Douglas Hinshaw, Defendants-Appellants.

Kansas City Court of Appeals, Missouri.

October 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ike Skelton, Jr., N. R. Bradley, Ike Skelton, Lexington, for appellants.

Albert Thomson, Harold T. Vandyke, John R. Cleary, Kansas City, for respondent.


ANDREW JACKSON HIGGINS, Special Justice.

This is a suit for damages for personal injuries submitted under the Kansas Last Clear Chance Doctrine. Judgment was for plaintiff for $15,000.00, and defendants have appealed.

On May 23, 1958, plaintiff was operating a Plymouth station wagon northbound in the east lane of U. S. Highway 69. This highway was an asphalt or "blacktop" road. There had been rain during the day. There was some dirt on the roadway and it was...

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