Roberts v. Hazle Yellow Cab Co.

PODCASY, J.,

On March 24, 1976, female plaintiff, Elva Roberts, then six-months pregnant, was riding as a passenger in a taxi owned by defendant and operated by one of defendant’s drivers within the City of Hazleton. An accident occurred, and Mrs. Roberts was thrown forward, striking her stomach on the back of the driver’s seat of the cab. A month later her child, a baby girl, was stillborn. Suit was thereafter commenced by the filing of a complaint in trespass, setting forth two distinct causes of action, one by the female plaintiff as administratrix of the stillborn child’s estate, and…