FLICKINGER ESTATE v. Ritsky

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

On September 28, 1968 George Flickinger, II, appellants’ decedent, was driving his motorcycle north ward on U. S. Route 422, a four-lane highway in Patton Township, Centre County. At the same time, defendant Ritsky, driving his own automobile, pulled onto the highway from a “Dairy Queen” parking lot on the easterly side of the highway. Ritsky’s car and Flickinger’s motorcycle collided, resulting in the death of the cyclist. A week prior to this occurrence, defendant-appellee Marona Construction Company [hereinafter “Marona”] had, in the course of laying a…