Ruthberg v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Frazer,

These two appeals were argued together and will be disposed of in one opinion, the question involved being the same in both cases.

On May 3, 1927, about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a trolley car of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, one of defendants, and a heavy motor truck owned by the Bryn Mawr Auto Trucking Company, the other defendant, collided at the intersection of two thoroughfares in a surburban district of the City of Philadelphia. Plaintiffs, husband and wife, the latter, a passenger on the street car, sustained injuries as a result of the…