McDevitt v. Checker Cab Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Wauling,

The Checker Cab Company and the Yellow Cab Company were rivals in Philadelphia. At the former’s garage on Twentieth and Oxford streets, a restaurant was operated for the accommodation of its chauffeurs. On the early morning of November 14, 1924, while Max Newman and a Mr. Northford were eating therein, William C. McDevitt, the deceased, entered; and, as the two former were leaving the place, Northford said to the latter and others therein, “Good night, boys. I guess the fellows at Thirty-First Street will get us,” meaning chauffeurs for the Yellow Cab Company,…