EAST TEXAS MOTOR FREIGHT LINES v. FREEMAN

No. 85-240.

713 S.W.2d 456 (1986)

289 Ark. 539

EAST TEXAS MOTOR FREIGHT LINES, INC., Appellant, v. Ellen FREEMAN, Denise Clark, Ted Clifton Tullos, Sr., Individually and For the Use and Benefit of Ted Clifton Tullos, Jr., A Minor, and Clifford Gillespie, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

July 21, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wright, Lindsey & Jennings by Lee J. Muldrow and Gregory T. Jones, Little Rock, for appellant.

Hale, Fogleman & Rogers by Joe M. Rogers, West Memphis, Moore, Moore-Hart & Barton, Osceola, for appellees.


HAYS, Justice.

At about 6 o'clock on the evening of June 15, 1981 eleven vehicles collided in dense smoke along a stretch of Interstate Highway 55 in Crittenden County, Arkansas. Earlier that day farm workers of Clifford Gillespie set fire to a wheat field being prepared for soybean planting. The wheat field was to the east of the highway and the smoke carried to the west, primarily affecting north bound traffic.

Appellee Ellen Freeman was driving her car...

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