Great Coastal Express, Inc. v. Schruefer

The widow, children and employer of the driver of a delivery truck which rear-ended a tractor-trailer that had pulled onto the highway from the driveway of a truck stop moments before the collision, brought suit against the driver of the tractor-trailer and his employer. This is an appeal from the judgment of Judge John J. Mitchell, presiding without a jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, in favor of the plaintiffs. The issue below turned on whether the tractor-trailer had entered the flow of traffic so as to excuse its driver from the rigid responsibility imposed by the…