Legal Opinion
Womack v. Gettelfinger
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1986No. Nos. 84-5613, 84-5614 and 84-5651PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
At 6:30 in the morning of October 14, 1983, defendant Charles S. Ritter, a relatively inexperienced truck driver operating a tractor-trailer owned by defendant Gettelfinger Farms, entered a two lane state *448highway from the driveway of a restaurant in rural Tennessee. The highway ran north-south, and Mr. Ritter approached it from the west side. Keeping the rear wheels of his trailer in sight in his rear view mirror, and taking care that they did not go into a ditch that was present at the side of the driveway, Mr. Ritter made a wide right turn, swinging onto the…
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