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VIRGINIA FREIGHT v. MONTGOMERY

[No. 88, September Term, 1969.]

256 Md. 221 (1969)

260 A.2d 59

VIRGINIA FREIGHT LINES, INC., ETC. v. MONTGOMERY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 23, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Goldsborough, Jr., with whom was K. Thomas Everngam on the brief, for appellant.

Ernest M. Thompson, with whom was Dorothy H. Thompson on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, and SINGLEY, JJ. and CHARLES E. ORTH, JR., Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, specially assigned.

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

This is not a real fish story — but it does concern a load of menhaden and a head-on collision in which, incredibly, no one was hurt. On 6 May 1966, appellant's tractor-trailer loaded with 15 tons of that inedible species (Brevoortia tyrannus) was southbound on U.S. Route 301 in Queen Anne's County. At about 4:30 p.m. it had reached a point where the highway...

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