Zorn v. Britton

In this case the court charged the jury trying an automobile-truck-collision suit, that if the jury, found the width of the truck to be excessive, in that it exceeded seven feet as authorized by Section 1296 C. G. L., Section 11, Chapter 8410, Acts of 1921, and that the ex cessive width of a truck was the proximate cause of the collision (by side-swiping on the part of the truck) that the verdict should be for the plaintiff under a count in a negligence declaration setting up a claim for damages for the negligent operation of a cotton-laden motor truck and trailer, the width of which (with…