BILLOW v. Farmers Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

In. the early morning hours of August 11, 1966, Ollie B. Martin lost his life in an automobile accident. He had been driving westwardly along Route 11 in Cumberland County when a two axle meat truck emerged from a driveway on the south side of the roadway and entered the westbound lane of traffic immediately in front of his car, thus precipitating the fatal collision. The appellants, the owner of the m'eat truck and its employee-driver, raise only two questions on these appeals: (1) whether the trial court properly granted appellees’ motion for a compulsory…