McCarthy v. Ference

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This proceeding is the outcome of a dreadful tragedy. In the gathering dusk of the late afternoon of December 22, 1942, a motor bus operated by Ohio River Motor Coach Company was proceeding towards Pittsburgh, at a speed of some 25 or 30 miles an hour, on a street in the Borough of Aliquippa called Constitution Boulevard, otherwise designated as State Highway Route 930. At a point about a quarter of a mile north of the bridge which crosses the Ohio River between Aliquippa and Ambridge a huge rock, of a weight estimated at eight tons, fell from a hillside…