DaSilvia v. Dalton

These are two actions of tort against the operator of a motor truck and his employer for personal injuries received in an accident in New Bedford on February 16, 1940. No question of agency is involved. Dalton, the operator, was driving a “straight job,” not a trailer, about twenty-two feet long and eight and one half feet wide overall, with a box body. The truck had been driven to the Naushon Mill and was backed up against the loading platform. A heavy fall of snow had been cleared for a space, of twelve feet in width to enable trucks to reach this platform. It was about five o’clock in the…