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MELVILLE v. STATE OF MARYLAND

No. 5476.

155 F.2d 440 (1946)

MELVILLE v. STATE OF MARYLAND to Use of MORRIS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

May 13, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick W. C. Webb, of Salisbury, Md. (Woodcock, Webb, Bounds & Travers, of Salisbury, Md., on the brief), for appellant.

Frank C. Wachter and Hilary W. Gans, both of Baltimore, Md. (Thomas F. Johnson, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellees.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

This case arose out of a tragic collision between a motor truck owned by James Melville and a tractor-trailer truck owned by the Acme Poultry Corporation. On each of these trucks were two men and all four of them were killed. There were no eye-witnesses to the accident. A civil action against Melville, removed from a state court to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and tried...

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