Kaufman v. Hegeman Transfer & Lighterage Terminal, Inc.

The plaintiff offered evidence to prove that on August 26th, 1921, the motortruck of the defendant Hegeman Transfer & Lighterage Terminal, Inc., while traveling easterly on the Boston Post Road in Westport, was negligently run into by the motortruck of the defendant E. N. Smith Trucking Company, traveling westerly, and as a result the Smith Company’s truck turned at right angles to the highway, its front dropped into a ditch, and its rear projected well over the traveled portion of the highway. Thereupon the Hegeman Company truck backed to the rear of the Smith Company truck and attaching the…