Jedwabny v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Jones,

The principal question on these appeals is whether the granting of a new trial because of the trial judge’s failure to make certain that one of the litigants had full knowledge of an existing conflict of interest in his attorney’s representation of him constituted an abuse of discretion.

Three plaintiffs, one of whom was the owner and driver of an automobile and the other two his guest passengers, sued the Philadelphia Transportation Company for damages for injuries sustained in a collision between the automobile and a street car of the Transportation Company.…