Lee Moor Contracting Co. V. Blanton

ROSS, J. Elizabeth L. Blanton brought this action as administratrix for damages to her husband's estate, charging defendants Lee Moor Contracting Company and Lee Kiser with having caused his death through their negligent operation of a motor-truck. The Lee Moor Contracting Company, to which we shall hereafter refer as the company, was a general contractor for certain road construction, on United States Highway No. 89, between Ashfork and Prescott, and had hired from Lee Kiser a motor-truck with which to haul gravel from a gravel pit to what is designated as the "hot" plant, located on the road about five miles distant and in a southerly direction from the gravel pit. The general course of the highway is north and south. The gravel pit is located about one-half mile west of the highway, and from it the gravel pit road runs easterly until it gets within about one hundred feet of the highway, at which point it turns south and for a thousand feet parallels the highway and then gradually approaches and enters it at an angle of about forty-five degrees.