Ferguson v. Virginia Tractor Co‪.‬

His car crashed into the defendants truck, which was parked on the right of the highway also in the direction of Richmond. The truck was without lights, which were functioning at the time, either at its front or at its rear or at any other portion of it. The truck was painted a dark green or blue. It was in a setting, on the side of which was a fringe of green pines. From the rear end of the truck two square pieces of timber, four by twelve, projected from four to six feet. There were no lights on the projecting pieces of timber. There was a small piece of cloth on the end of one of the pieces, which the driver called a red flag. The impact thrust these beams through the windshield of the plaintiffs car, over the front seat and on to the back of the rear seat, tearing the upholstery. The plaintiffs car was telescoped under the rear of the truck. A young lady, who was seated beside the plaintiff, was killed outright and he was seriously and permanently injured. For sixty-eight days he was confined in the Memorial Hospital, where he incurred medical bills and expenses aggregating a very large sum.