United States v. Fleming

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Brought under Private. Act, No. 390, Act Aug. 26, 1937, 50 Stat. 1097,1 the claim of the suits was that there was negligence, (1) in parking and leaving the truck and trailer standing in and on a public traveled highway; (2) in leaving it on the highway without placing at the rear thereof, adequate lights or signals to warn of its presence; (3) in not placing flares or lights on the highway a sufficient distance in the rear of the truck to give timely warning that it was blocking the road. The defense was a denial and the plea that defendant was not guilty of any…