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SCHLICHTE v. FRANKLIN TROY TRUCKS

No. 60328.

265 N.W.2d 725 (1978)

Robert SCHLICHTE, Administrator of the Estate of Edward A. Schlichte, Deceased, Appellee, v. FRANKLIN TROY TRUCKS and John Robert Hamilton, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cambridge, Feilmeyer, Landsness, Rutherford & Chase, Atlantic, for appellants.

McCullough Law Firm, Sac City, and Crane, Peters & McMinimee, Carroll, for appellee.

Considered by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, RAWLINGS, UHLENHOPP, and REYNOLDSON, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves three claimed errors in a trial of a wrongful death action.

The evidence viewed in the most favorable light to the verdict reveals that after dark on October 31, 1975, on a primary highway, defendant Franklin Troy Trucks drove the lime truck of defendant John Robert Hamilton with the latter's consent, pulling a "pup trailer." The trailer had no safety chain attaching it to the truck. It became disengaged from the truck...

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