Cohen v. Jenkintown Cab Co.

Opinion by

Cercone, J.,

This appeal by Jenkintown Cab Co. arises from the lower court’s granting of plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, after the jury returned a verdict for the defendant cab company at the trial. The principal allegation of error *458is that the court en banc mistakenly granted the motion for a new trial on the grounds that the trial court erred in refusing to permit testimony concerning a conversation between a former cab driver for Jenkintown Cab Co., who is now deceased, and his attorney. That admittedly-confidential communication concerned the accident which caused the…