Legal Opinion
Milam v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 1992No. 91-1878PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Stephen Geiger was driving eastbound on an interstate highway in Indiana when a truck crossed the median from the westbound lanes and struck his car, killing him. The driver of the truck had lost control when it struck another truck’s wheel (that is, the tire and rim assembly) that, we are required to assume, was upright and rolling in his lane. It was night and no one saw where the wheel came from or even whether it was rolling toward or away from, or possibly at an angle to, the truck that struck it. It might have come off the axle of a truck in front (possibly even in…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Milam v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992