State v. Salone

The following facts were agreed upon by the state and the defendant. The defendant is the owner of a 1949 Mack dump truck, properly registered by the owner in accordance with the statute so providing, to carry a gross weight of 30,100 pounds. The truck on March 1, 1961, was being *100operated by one Trombly, an employee of the defendant, in a southerly direction on route 147, a state highway in East Granby, with a load of cold-patch tar, when he was stopped by a state trooper. The gross weight of the truck when stopped was 35,200 pounds, an overload of 5,100 pounds above its registered gross…