Covent Insurance v. Carroll County Commissioners

This is an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Carroll County, from a granting of defendants-appellees’, Carroll County Commissioners’, motion for summary judgment.

On July 31, 1979, at approximately 3:30 p.m., one Bill Bunker was driving a commercial truck west on State Route 39. The truck was owned at the time by Ruan Leasing Company, and insured by the plaintiff-appellant, Covent Insurance Company, Ltd. Bunker proceeded west on State Route 39 around a curve and observed a bridge marked thirteen feet six inches clearance. There had been no advance clearance signs. Thinking that the…