Cross v. Maryland Casualty Co.

ATWELL, District Judge.

All of the facts are stipulated except whether the plaintiff’s leg was injured by striking the auto, or, the implement that was attached to the back of it. I find that his injury resulted from striking the auto.

The accident occurred in 1935. The plaintiff was sitting on the bed of a flat-bedded truck en route to his work. Mason, who was operating an auto with a two-wheeled vehicle attached to the back of it, had stopped on the pavement and was headed in the same direction that the truck was going which carried the plaintiff. It was just after dark. Mason was out of his…