Armstrong v. Johnson Motor Lines, Inc.

Wilbert Calvin Armstrong Sr. met a tragic death shortly before dawn on January 16, 1968 on Route 40, near Joppa Farm Road, in Harford County. A collision had occurred between two passenger vehicles on the highway, leaving one at rest in the grass median strip and the other partially blocking the inside, or southerly, westbound lane. About 10 minutes later, a truck of appellee Johnson Motor Lines, Inc., operated by its employee, appellee Robert Eugene Gregg, approached the scene travelling west in the inside lane. Gregg testified that a bus, without warning, swerved from the right lane into…