Dress v. Schuylkill Railway Co.

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

This -appeal brings up two contentions: 1st, that amendment of the record correcting a mistake in name, made appellant a defendant after the period of limitation had run; 2d, that there is no evidence of defendant’s negligence.

1. Plaintiff was injured June 19,1919, while a passenger in a car of the Schuylkill Railway Company, a corporation operating an electric street railway in Schuylkill County. A summons was issued June 9,1921, naming as defendant, the Schuylkill County Railway Company, another corporation, although plaintiff’s counsel intended to sue the Schuylkill…