Homeland Ins. Co. v. Thompson

In the early morning of October 28, 1940, Oakley Daugherty, truck driver, and Mitchell Ashy, bookkeeper and field man of Bradford Lewis, were conveying a heavy dragline unit loaded on what was called a lowboy trailer, attached to a new International truck, all the property of the said Bradford Lewis. The outfit was being conveyed to a WPA project on the Duplechain Road, which road extends east and west across the tracks of the defendant company at a point near the northern corporate limits of the town of Oberlin. Ashy was driving in his own automobile ahead of the truck, and Daugherty was…