Weishaar v. Canestrale

These appeals were spawned on a foggy morning in March, 1964. Kaczmarek, driving Canestrale’s truck, which was. loaded with kitchen cabinets destined for College Park, 1 had reached a point on U. S. Route 40 A about 8 miles east of Hagerstown and some 1,000 feet from the summit of South Mountain, when the truck’s engine, which earlier had evinced symptoms of malfunction, came to a complete stop.

The highway at this point is divided into three lanes, one for the downhill (westbound) traffic and two for the uphill (eastbound) traffic. The right uphill lane is for slow traffic, the left for…