slid, and he attempted to swerve to the right but the truck would not swerve.
The photographs taken later, admitted into evidence and with testimony related thereto, show that the general terrain of the Ha Ha Tonka road in the vicinity of the collision was unchanged from the time thereof. From the west the roadway inclines downward, then upward, on a rather long curve to the left some distance to the point where the vehicles were found. In front of the Martin home is the peak of a small hill.
On rebuttal, Arval Crall testified. He went out to the scene to help and to stop traffic coming over the hill. He found the Ha Ha Tonka road about as slick as he ever drove on, and there was just1959, V.A.M.S., which provides, "Upon all public roads or highways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be driven upon the right half of the roadway, * *" (after which follows statutory exceptions), and noting further that the jury could find same to be contributory negligence, yet we cannot, under this record, hold that such would amount to contributory negligence as a matter of law. Under all of the evidence regarded as true and beneficial to plaintiff, these facts existed: That this was a narrow, graveled, rural county road, 18 to 20 feet wide, with a graded portion 14 feet wide; that at the time of the collision the road was being used by the traveling public in a single two-track lane which was located approximately in its center,