Odessa Duff v. Bemidji Motor Service

1. After dark two trucks, one disabled and the other a service car called to its assistance, blocked one lane of a trunk highway. In the hazard thus created, the decedent, who had come to the assistance of the truck drivers, was killed while standing in front of the service truck in a collision between it and another car. Failure of driver of the service truck to set out flares which he had available and the use of which under such circumstances is required by statute held to show both negligence and also, under the circumstances, its agency of proximate causation.