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UNITED STATES v. SAVAGE TRUCK LINE

Nos. 6648-6651.

209 F.2d 442 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. SAVAGE TRUCK LINE, Inc. et al. (four cases).

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornelius J. Peck, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington D. C. (Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., L. S. Parsons, Jr., U. S. Atty., James R. Moore, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Samuel D. Slade, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington D. C., on the brief), for United States.

F. Elmore Butler, Richmond, Va. (John S. Davenport, III, and Denny, Valentine & Davenport, Richmond, Va., on the brief), for Savage Truck Line, Inc.

James M. Minor, John G. May, Jr., and Ernest G. Garrett, Jr., Richmond, Va., on the brief for Frances E. Harris, Executrix.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and WILKIN, District Judge.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

These suits grow out of a collision on a four-lane highway of U. S. Route 1 in Hanover County, Virginia, at about 5 A.M. in the morning of March 29, 1951 between a truck owned by Brooks Transportation Company, Inc. and driven by Bernard R. Harris, its employee, and a truck owned by Savage Truck Line, Inc. and driven by its employee Z. F. Payne.

Savage was a common carrier and as such was engaged under a contract with the United States...

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