ORR v. WILLIAMS

No. 23933.

379 S.W.2d 181 (1964)

Hollis ORR, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Everett Eugene WILLIAMS and L. E. Beckman, d/b/a Beckman Chevrolet Company, Centralia, Missouri, Defendants-Appellants.

Kansas City Court of Appeals, Missouri.

April 6, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Warren D. Welliver and J. Turner Jones, Welliver, Porter & Cleaveland, Columbia, for defendants-appellants.

Spencer, Hines & Petri, Columbia, for L. E. Beckman, defendant-appellant.

Scott O. Wright and H. C. Willbrand, Brown, Wright & Willbrand, Columbia, for plaintiff-respondent.


DEW, Special Commissioner.

The plaintiff sued to recover damages to his tractor and trailer caused when they were overturned upon contacting a steel cable stretched across the highway. The defendants had stretched the cable while engaged in pulling a stalled car from a ditch on the roadside. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $8,735, and defendants have appealed.

The petition alleges that at all such times defendant Williams was the...

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