City-Wide Trucking Corporation v. Emma Ford

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Mrs. Ford, the plaintiff * in the District Court, was injured after the defendants’ dump truck, which with its load, weighed about 16,000 pounds, struck the rearmost of four passenger cars. Defendants’ brief graphically describes the episode. Mrs. Ford “was a passenger in a motor vehicle * * * which was stopped in a line of traffic * * *. There were three vehicles stopped behind the car in which plaintiff was a passenger and a truck owned and operated by the defendants hit the rear of the fourth car which caused a chain reaction and the car in which the plaintiff was a…