Johnson v. Peoples First National Bank & Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

This appeal presents a question of first impression in this Court. Can a "widow maintain a trespass .action against her deceased husband’s personal representative to recover damages for personal injuries received by *118her as the result of the husband’s negligent operation of a motor vehicle which negligent conduct occurred during coverture?

Maude E. Johnson, appellant, on September 23, 1957, instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County a trespass action against Peoples First National Bank and Trust Company, Executor under the last will of…