Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. v. Carter

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The case sub judice arose out of a fatal night-time collision between appellees’ decedent and a trailer manufactured by appellant Great Dane Trailers, Inc. (Great Dane), and leased to another corporation, not a party to this appeal, by appellant Ryder Truck Rental, Inc. (Ryder). At the time of the accident the cab to which the trailer was attached occupied the southbound lane of the highway where the fatal collision occurred; the trailer, in a position perpendicular to the cab, was being backed across the highway’s northbound lane into a driveway. The decedent, driving…