Caplan v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The plaintiff was a passenger in a trolley car travel-ling northwardly on Third Street, Philadelphia. An auto truck was being driven eastwardly on Montrose Street. When the front wheels of the auto truck were across the first rail of the trolley track and the engine between the rails, the trolley car was fifty feet away. The car subsequently struck the rear right wheel of the truck with force sufficient to throw it upside down on the pavement at the northeast corner of the intersecting streets. After striking the truck, the car travelled twenty feet before it was brought…