United States Tenth Circuit

In an action for damages to a tractor-trailer truck in interstate commerce, the district court erred when it determined that a transportation company was liable for the damage simply because the truck bore the company's placards at the time of the accident.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2003
• Published 08/25/2003

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before MURPHY, BALDOCK, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• James Attridge,Scopelitis, Garvin, Light & Hanson, San Francisco, California (Jerry N. Jones, Moye, Giles, O'Keefe, Vermeire & Gorrell, LLP, with him on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee., Alan Epstein, Hall & Evans, L.L.C., Denver, Colorado (Anthony Melonakis, Sutton, Melonakis & Gulley, P.A., with him on the briefs), for Defendant-Appellant.