Legal Opinion
Har-Pen Truck Lines, Inc. v. Frederick Allen Mills, III
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 6, 1967No. 23044_1PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
At 9:20 p. m. on July 25, 1963, as a tractor-trailer truck with a 42,000 pound load of terra cotta pipe drove around a curve about two miles north of Way-cross, Georgia, the load of pipe shifted and spilled over the side of the trailer and on to a car driving in the other direction. The falling pipe crushed the car, killing the driver, Allen Mills, and his wife, Patricia, and orphaning and injuring their three sons. The sons, together with their grandmother, Mrs. Tessie Mills, as next friend, now sue for their personal injuries and for the wrongful death of their…
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