Legal Opinion
Campion v. Brooks Transp. Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 8, 1943No. Nos. 8069, 8070PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VINSON, Associate Justice.
The plaintiffs (appellants) instituted actions, consolidated for trial, to recover damages for injuries sustained when the truck of the defendant (appellee) collided with an automobile in which they were passengers. The automobile was standing still at-an intersection in obedience to the red signal of a traffic light. It was uncontradicted that the driver of the defendant’s truck, when some 550 feet away and de-. scending the hill, saw the car standing as described. The driver admitted that he had lost control of the truck on the steep incline approaching the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- McHenry v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1921
- Sanford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- State v. QuirkSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
- State v. EkangerNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1899
- Miller v. Territory of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
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3Cited by3 opinions
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