Levine v. Shell Eastern Petroleum Products, Inc.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff sued for personal injuries alleged tó be due to the defendant’s negligence in leaving an oil truck upon Forty-Eighth Street in the city of Brooklyn. The situation was as follows: The defendant was delivering oil to an apartment on the south side of Forty-Eighth Street from one of its trucks, some twenty-six feet long. Instead of putting it alongside the kerb, the driver set it at an angle of about forty-five degrees facing eastward; the right hand rear corner was close to the fcerb and the left hand forward corner about eighteen feet away from it; the…