Yeager v. Winton Motor Carriage Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 154, Oct. T., 1912, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C.'P. No. 2, Phila. Co., June T., 1909, No. 5,652, for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of Andrew J. Yeager and George S. Schock, trading as Lewistown Garage, v. Winton Motor Carriage Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to an automobile. Before Staples, P. J., specially presiding.
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Appeal, No. 154, Oct. T., 1912, by plaintiffs, from judgment of C.'P. No. 2, Phila. Co., June T., 1909, No. 5,652, for defendant non obstante veredicto in case of Andrew J. Yeager and George S. Schock, trading as Lewistown Garage, v. Winton Motor Carriage Company. Trespass to recover damages for injuries to an automobile. Before Staples, P. J., specially presiding. At the trial it appeared that on April 21, 1909, the plaintiff’s car was struck by an automobile of the defendant negligently operated by one of defendant’s employees. Other facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The plaintiffs were partners engaged in the business of buying and selling automobiles and were riding in a car belonging to them at the time of the injury complained of. After a verdict for the plaintiffs the learned trial judge entered judgment for the defendant for the reason that Yeager, one of the plaintiffs, who was driving the car was not licensed so to do and that the plaintiffs were, therefore, trespassers on the highway and not entitled to damages for the loss occasioned by the defendant’s negligence. The plaintiffs had bought a new car in which they started…
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