Insurance Co. of North America v. Schuneman

November 27,1959, the defendant truck driver was returning to Detroit with a truckload of pianos and piano benches for Grinnell Brothers. He had picked up the load at Rochester, New York, and was driving a tractor trailer combination owned by Grinnell Brothers. About 2 hours out of Erie, Pennsylvania, while on Ohio route 90, defendant failed to make the final curve of a long highway “S”. At the point where the combination left the pavement such curve was “about a 75 to 80 degree angle” to the left. The combination went off the highway at “approximately 30 to 35 miles an hour.” Its right…