Days Transfer, Inc. v. Silvers

While seated in an automobile which she had parked on the berm between the pavement and the sidewalk on west Fourth Avenue in the city of Gary, Indiana, the appellee was injured when a truck, belonging to the appellant and traveling east along said street, ran off the pavement and struck said automobile from the rear. She brought this suit to recover resulting damages and was awarded judgment in the sum of $5,000.

As a proximate cause of the accident the appellee charges, among other acts of alleged negligence, “that the defendant, through its servant and agent Ralph Wagner, operated its truck…