DAWSON v. OLSON

No. 10865.

496 P.2d 97 (1972)

94 Idaho 636

Rodney Derryl DAWSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ronald T. OLSON and Department of Highways, State of Idaho, Defendants-Respondents, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Intervenor-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Idaho.

Rehearing Denied May 8, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eberle, Berlin, Kading, Turnbow & Gillespie, Boise, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Elam, Burke, Jeppesen, Evans & Boyd, Boise, for respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Kent B. Power, Boise, for respondent Ronald T. Olson.

W. Anthony Park, Atty. Gen., and Faber F. Tway, Boise, for respondent Dept. of Highways.


McQUADE, Chief Justice.

This is an action for wrongful death which arose from a traffic accident the evening of January 12, 1968. All roads were bare and dry at the eastern edge of Caldwell, where Interstate Highway 80 passes beneath an overpass bearing traffic on Franklin Road. A pickup truck driven by Hazel G. Dawson, accompanied by her husband, Nathaniel C. Dawson, turned from the Interstate and stopped behind a semi-trailer truck parked on the exit ramp leading...

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