Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. v. Staats

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The court below directed the jury to find a verdict for defendants and subsequently denied plaintiff’s motion for a new trial because it was of opinion that sufficient evidence had not been produced to justify an inference of negligence on the part of the operator off defendants’ truck.

At about six o’clock on a December evening one Brice was driving a truck on the business of his employers, Staats Oil Company, wéstwardly in Paoli upon the Lincoln Highway which there consists of a. concrete four lane roadway forty feet wide with paved shoulders four feet in…