Kaufman Beef Co. Ex Rel. Travelers Insurance v. United Railways & Electric Co.

The appellant’s employee, while engaged in the performance of his duty as driver of its motor truck, was killed in a collision of the truck with a car of the United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore. The accident was due to the fact tha-t, one of the wheels of the motor truck ran over a bundle of Saturday Evening Posts, which had been oast into the street from a northbound car, and the truck, which was also proceeding northwardly, had its steering gear dis arranged by tbe jar resulting from its contact with the package of papers, and was thus caused to swerve from its course and…