Legal Opinion
Wilfred L. Miller v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 26, 1957No. 14094_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAHY, Circuit Judge.
Appellants Miller and Alban Tractor Co. sued in the District Court for property damage resulting from a collision between a passenger train of the Railroad and Miller’s motor-drawn excavation equipment at a grade crossing near Lanham, Maryland. 1 **The equipment consisted of a bulldozer loaded on a “lowboy” trailer and an earth scraper connected to the trailer. These were being pulled by a truck-tractor in charge of Miller. The “low-boy” trailer swung closer to the ground than ordinary motor equipment, and the connected group of tractor and equipment was about 70 feet long…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. ClemIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
- Sheila Ilina Boland, Etc. v. J. Spencer LoveCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1955
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. LeasureCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1949
- Hickey v. Kansas City Southern Railway CompanySupreme Court of Missouri · 1956
- Kean v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1884
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Myers v. GaitherDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1967
- Miller v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.District Court, District of Columbia · 1958
- Barlow v. RocheDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1960
- Wilfred L. Miller, and Alban Tractor Company, Inc. v. The Pennsylvania, Railroad Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1959
- Myers v. GaitherDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1967
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