Pelkey v. Kent

Memorandum: Defendant, the owner of a panel truck with house trailer attached thereto, while attempting to turn into a driveway became stuck in a snowdrift with a substantial part *637of the trailer across the highway. Plaintiff operating his vehicle collided with the trailer at 9 o’clock of a December evening. Defendant on the day in question had been moving his family from Rochester to Woodgate — a distance in excess of 150 miles. The combined length of truck and attached trailer was 52 feet. Subdivision 4 of section 385 of Vehicle and Traffic Law on the date in question prohibited, with…