National Hauling Contractors Co. v. Baltimore Transit Co.

This suit is the result of a collision between a tractor-trailer unit belonging to the appellant-plaintiff, and operated by one of its drivers, and a two-car train of the appellee-defendant, at or near the intersection of Baltimore Street and Bond Street in Baltimore City about 5:30 o’clock on the morning of December 20, 1943.

The tractor-trailer combination, 40 feet in length overall and weighing about 16 tons, had been proceeding in a southerly direction on Bond Street and was going down a three per cent, grade. That street, which runs north and south, is 41 feet 10 inches wide, with…