Robert Lincoln v. Railway Express Agency
By Supreme Court of Missouri
- Release Date: 1962-07-16
- Genre: Law
Description
Action for damages for personal injuries arising out of a vehicular collision. Robert Lincoln recovered judgment for $20,000
against Railway Express Agency, Inc., and its truck driver Edward L. Gruenewald. Both defendants appealed. Plaintiff was driving an eastbound taxicab in St. Louis County on St. Charles Rock Road, a six-lane concrete roadway divided
by a median strip. The cab and an eastbound panel truck owned by the agency and driven by Gruenewald collided when the truck
turned left in attempting to make a U-turn at the Ridgeway Avenue crossover. The three eastbound lanes will be referred to
as follows: The lane nearest the median strip, Lane 1 (15 feet wide); the center lane, Lane 2 (15 feet wide), and the outer
or southernmost lane, Lane 3 (10 feet wide). Walton Road, which enters St. Charles Rock Road from the south, is 320 feet west
of the Ridgeway crossover. On the south side of St. Charles Rock Road there are business buildings, with a macadamized private
parking area in front of them.
