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SMITH v. ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT

[No. 8, October Term, 1956.]

211 Md. 134 (1956)

126 A.2d 584

SMITH ET AL. v. ASSOCIATED TRANSPORT, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 6, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Green, Jr., with whom were James J. Lindsay, J. Nicholas Shriver, Jr., and J. Paul Bright, Jr., on the brief, for the appellants.

The Court declined to hear argument for the appellee.

Rollins, Smalkin, Weston & Andrew and Ginsberg & Ginsberg on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ., and HENDERSON, J., Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal we must determine who in a motor vehicle caravan was careless, tested by the standards of the law.

The time was a clear, dry September morning in 1953. The place was Route 30 in Carroll County, a concrete road with a paved width of twenty-four feet, at or near the entrance to the Black and Decker Company plant south of Hampstead. Driving north on Route 30 was a tractor owned and operated by Smith...

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