Colonial Trust Co. v. Elmer C. Breuer, Inc.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This case, as argued, calls for an interpretation of the phrase “assured clear distance ahead” as contained in the statutory mandate that no person shall drive a motor vehicle upon a highway at a greater speed than will permit him to bring it to a stop within such distance.

At some time around the hour of midnight a tractor with two attached flat-bottom trailers, operated by defendant’s employe, was being driven in a southerly direction approaching the city limits of Ravenna, Ohio. On the second or hindmost trailer there were coils of steel which, according…