Legal Opinion
Terrell J. Reese and Reese Products, Inc. v. Elkhart Welding and Boiler Works, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 16, 1971No. 18292_1PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Circuit Judge.
Without our resorting to judicial notice, we cannot be unaware that the average automobilist, who for the first time has hitched a trailer to his vehicle and has naively opined that the operational pattern of the dual assembly would not differ from that of a single conveyance, must have come to the conclusion that some sort of a poltergeist had selected him as a target. The vagaries of the ensuing action are no less real even though attributable to elementary laws of physics pertaining to aligned and attached moving bodies.
Harold J. Reese, plaintiff herein, essayed at the…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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3Cited by56 opinions
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- Duplan Corp. v. Deering Milliken, Inc.District Court, D. South Carolina · 1977
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