trailer

A car attached to a streetcar and operated with the latter. A vehicle used for transportation of freight on the highway, being towed by a tractor or another powered vehicle. Waddey v Maryland Casualty Co. 171 Tenn 112, 100 SW2d 984, 109 ALR 654. A vehicle having a large and commodious body, which can be towed upon the highway but is usually parked and used as living quarters; sometimes called a house trailer. A building within the meaning of a building code, where set up as a stationary home. Lower Merion Township v Gallup, 158 Pa Super 572, 46 A2d 35, app dismd 329 US 669, 91 L Ed 591, 67 S Ct 92. Not a motor vehicle within the meaning of a statute providing for constructive or substituted service upon a nonresident motorist. Anno: 48 ALR2d 1284. A freight trailer falls into the category of trade equipmert within the Michigan rule that damages for the loss of use of tools and trade equipment are recoverable in replevin, where the plaintiff's source of livelihood consisted of hiring out his trailer and tractor with himself as driver. Steel Motor Service v Zalke (CA6 Mich) 212 F2d 856, 48 ALR2d 1045.