DeLuca v. Manchester Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

The problem here presented concerns the determination of the proximate cause of the accident in suit.

Mifflin Street, in Philadelphia, is 26 feet wide from curb to curb. It is a one-way street open only for eastbound traffic. The business establishment of defend*486ant Manchester Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company, Inc., is situated on the north side of the street 72 feet east of 11th Street. A loading platform protrudes from the front of its property and extends over the sidewalk 4 feet 2 inches; the sidewalk itself is 12 feet wide. On May 29, 1953, the day…