Bobbitt v. Maher Beverage Co.

Counsel for the defendants do not seriously urge that the verdict cannot be supported as concerns the questions of negligence and proximate cause. Evidence presented by plaintiff was to the effect that the motor truck of the Maher Beverage Company was traveling north on U. S. route' 23 at a rapid rate of speed, closely followed by the heavily loaded motor truck of Erskine. As these vehicles approached intersecting state route 281, the Maher truck reduced its speed and without warning swerved to the left and then to the right in an attempt to make a right-hand turn onto route 281. The Erskine…