Bratt v. Bethlehem Steel Co.

WOOD, District Judge.

This is a personal injury suit in which plaintiff, a truck driver employed by Branch Motor Express Company, was seriously injured on November 7, 1957. Plaintiff was driving a tractor-trailer loaded with steel angle irons, or steel channels, when the chain binding the angle irons onto the fiat bed of the trailer snapped and the load shifted, causing the tractor-trailer to go out of control.

On October 9, 1959, plaintiff brought this suit alleging that the tractor-trailer had been loaded by the employees of the defendant acting in the scope of their employment. Defendant’s…