Hunt Drug Co. v. Hubert

The plaintiff seeks to recover for damage to a sidewalk clock and to an electric sign thereon caused by the superstructure of the defendant's barrel truck striking the *196clock. The base of the clock, which with the framework weighed about seventeen hundred pounds, was of cast iron riveted into a cement block which was set into the sidewalk near the curb in front of premises occupied by the plaintiff as a drug store.

The case was heard upon the report of an auditor without other evidence. The auditor found subsidiary facts, presumably justified by evidence before him, and also made a general…