Howey v. Yellow Cab Co. (United States, Third-Party Appellant). Gutmann v. Yellow Cab Co. (United States, Third-Party Appellant)

BIGGS, Chief Judge.

There are two appeals at bar. They can be disposed of appropriately in one opinion. Two suits were brought in the court below because, the Gutmanns and the Howeys, the original plaintiffs, riding together as passengers, were injured in a collision which took place in Philadelphia on December 1, 1946 between a taxicab operated by Yellow Cab Company, the original defendant and the third-party plaintiff, and a mail truck operated by an employee of the United States, the third-party defendant. The Gutmanns and the Howeys sued Yellow Cab Company in the two suits referred to,…