Massachusetts Turnpike Authority v. Roberts

The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment entered against it in the Superior Court on the defendant’s counterclaim for the damages sustained by him when the top of the trailer of the tractor-trailer truck he was operating struck a stringer on the underside of a bridge over the Massachusetts Turnpike. The judge who heard the case without jury warrantably found (a) that the maximum clearance under the bridge had been reduced from approximately fourteen feet to thirteen feet, eight and one quarter inches, when the stringer in question had been struck by an object carried on another truck some…