General Refining Co. v. International Harvester Co.

On July 22nd, 1986, a truck loaded with 3,500 gallons of kerosene and weighing about twenty tons, which was owned by the General Refining Company, and driven by Henry R. Steinert, its employee, while proceeding north on the Bel Air Road, “became disabled” at a point about three miles south of Bel Air, and stopped. Steinert thereupon called his employer, and in response to that call Fred P. Esbrandt, its plant manager in Baltimore, called the International Harvester Company and instructed it to send a man to repair the tractor on the road. It agreed to send a man to make the repairs and,…