Hines v. Fanti

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

On April 26, 1951, Howard Hines, a driver of eighteen years’ experience, sat at the wheel of his eight-ton International truck as it rolled southwardly along Boute 11, a three-lane highway, on the way from West Nanticoke to Hunlock’s Creek, both in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was 8 o’clock in the morning, the weather clear and dry, the visibility good, when Hines, overtaking a nine-ton GMC truck, passed uneventfully around it and returned to his side of the highway. The GMC truck, (driven by Aldo S. Fanti), routinely followed in the wake of the Hines truck…