Green Truck Lines, Inc. v. Hooper

Green Truck Lines, Inc. sued James F. Hooper and W. Pratt Thomas, doing business as Columbus Canning Company, and Columbus Canning Company, a corporation, to recover for property damage to its truck-trailer unit and the cargo, proximately caused, as it was charged, by the negligence of the defendants in the operation of one of their truck-trailer units.

The damage resulted when the unit of the defendants, driven by Harvey Burgess, in the early morning of June 29, 1953, ran into the back of the plaintiff’s unit, driven by Alvin A. Cantrell, on U. S. Highway No. 11 near Hattiesburg, Mississippi.…