Shafer v. State Ex Rel. Sundergill

The appellant, owner of a motor truck in collision with an automobile driven by the appellee’s husband, Stanley H. Sundergill, appeals from a judgment for damages from the resulting death of the husband, and questions rulings on the legal sufficiency of evidence to prove that negligence of the truck driver caused the death, and on the admissibility, of evidence.

On a straight section of the Liberty Pike east of Frederick, shortly after midday on a Saturday, in clear, dry weather, the truck, of one and a half tons’ capacity, eight feet wide, was being driven east toward Baltimore, and…