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SCHMITT v. JENKINS TRUCK LINES, INC.

No. 53082.

170 N.W.2d 632 (1969)

Marcella K. SCHMITT and the Farmers National Bank of Webster City, Administrators of the Estates of Dorothy T. Schmitt and Theodore G. Schmitt, both Deceased, Appellees, v. JENKINS TRUCK LINES, INC., Violet H. Sorge, and Earlyn W. Quirren, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 5, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McCracken & Carlin, Davenport, and David R. Hardy, Lane D. Bauer and Robert K. Waldo of Shook, Hardy, Ottman, Mitchell & Bacon, of Kansas City, Mo., for appellant Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc.

McDonald & McDonald, Davenport, and Austin, Grefe & Sidney, Des Moines, for appellants Violet H. Sorge and Earlyn W. Quirren.

Frank C. Byrd, Memphis, Tenn., and Whitley M. Hemingway, Webster City, for appellees.

MASON, Justice.

This appeal involves two law actions tried jointly to a jury in which plaintiffs as administrators of the estates of Dorothy T. and her husband Theodore G. Schmitt sought damages for the death of their decedents.

Defendants are Jenkins Truck Lines, Inc., lessee of a tractor-trailer unit, Violet H. Sorge, owner and lessor thereof and Earlyn W. Quirren, operator of the unit.

January 15, 1965, about 6 a. m. Quirren was driving the tractor...

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