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- Title: Burwell v. Siddens
- Author : Supreme Court Of Iowa.
- Release Date : January 11, 1947
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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On May 25, 1945, plaintiff-appellant was riding in an automobile owned and operated by her husband, Frank M. Burwell. While proceeding north on U.S. Highway 169, a few miles north of Mount Ayr, their car collided with a truck being operated by defendant Burl Colvin and owned by defendant Edgar Siddens. The truck was proceeding in a southerly direction on said highway. As the result of the collision, appellant was seriously injured and her husband was killed. The jury returned a verdict for defendants. Appellant alleged and set forth in her petition three grounds of negligence upon the part of the appellees: (1) Defendants, on meeting the motor vehicle in which plaintiff was riding, failed to give one half of the traveled way but drove their motor vehicle across the center of the highway and into the motor vehicle in which plaintiff was riding. (2) Defendants drove their motor vehicle on the highway and used thereon a pneumatic tire when such tire was worn to the extent that more than two layers of fabric or cords were exposed on the entire traction surface. (3) Defendants drove their motor vehicle on the highway without having the same equipped with brakes adequate [238 Iowa Page 647]