St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins

On exceptions. This case was tried before a jury at the November 1949 Term of the Superior Court for Cumberland County. At the close of the evidence the presiding justice ordered a nonsuit. The case is before us on plaintiff’s exceptions to this ruling.

The facts in the case were comparatively simple. In attempting to avoid collision with the defendant’s truck which was stopped diagonally across the plaintiff’s right-hand lane of a public highway and headed somewhat towards the plaintiff’s approaching vehicle, the plaintiff’s agent drove his tractor-trailer-milk-tank vehicle so far to his own…