Plumb v. Burnham

Plaintiff brought this action to recover for personal *131injuries and property damage resulting from an accident wherein plaintiffs car, traveling east, collided with the rear of a one-and-one-half-ton Studebaker truck, owned by defendant Sumner W. Burnham, but driven and allegedly parked unlawfully upon the highway east of York by his employee, defendant John Worman. The issues of defendants’ negligence and plaintiff’s contributory negligence, respectively alleged to have proximately caused the accident, together with the amount of plaintiff’s alleged damages, were tried and submitted to a…