Reiff v. Boland

Brown, Jr., J.,

Following verdict for plaintiff in the amount of $5,000, defendant filed a motion for judgment n. o. v. This was «dismissed by the court in banc.

On December 6,1934, at about 6 p.m., while the plaintiff was walking from the west to the east side of Fifth Street at the south side of Lycoming Avenue, Philadelphia, he was struck and injured by an automobile operated by the defendant south on Fifth Street.

From curb to curb Fifth Street, which runs north and south, is 50 feet wide, with double trolley car tracks in the middle, the west rail being approximately eighteen feet from the…